Persian Carpets: The Nation as a Transnational Commodity

by Minoo Moallem

Book Overview

Persian Carpets: the Nation As a Transnational Commodity tracks the Persian carpet as an exotic and mythological object, as a commodity, and as an image from mid-nineteenth-century England to contemporary Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Following the journey of this single object, the book brings issues of labor into conversation with the politics of aesthetics. It focuses on the carpet as a commodity which crosses the boundaries of private and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138290254
• ISBN13: 9781138290259
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.8"