VITAE

Abbas Daneshvari Professor of Art History Chair, Department of Art (2009-2013) California State University,

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. 1977 UCLA-Art History M.A. 1971 University of Massachusetts, Amherst B.S. 1969 California State University, Hayward

TEACHING HISTORY:

Professor of Art History California State University, Los Angeles 1982-Present Fulbright Scholar Cairo, Egypt 1981-1982 Assistant Professor University of California, Berkeley 1979-1981

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS:

2017 Abbas Daneshvari, editor, Essays on Contemporary Iranian Photography, Mazda, Costa Mesa.

2016 Abbas Daneshvari, The Sculptures of Parviz Tanavoli, M. Publishers, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, January 2016.

2014 Abbas Daneshvari, Amazingly Original: Contemporary Iranian Art at Crossroads, New Art, Mazda Publishers.

2011 Abbas Daneshvari Of Serpents and Dragons in , An Iconographical Study, Persian Heritage Series / Mazda Publishers.

2006 Abbas Daneshvari, editor, A Survey of , vol. XVII, Ashiya Publishers/Mazda.

2005 Abbas Daneshvari and Jay Gluck, editors. A Survey of Persian Art, vol. XVIII, Ashiya Publishers/ Mazda .

1986 Abbas Daneshvari Animal Symbolism in Warqa wa Gulshah, Oxford University Press.

1986 Abbas Daneshvari Medieval Tomb Towers of : An Iconographical Study, Undena/Mazda.

1982 Abbas Daneshvari, editor. Essays in Islamic Art and Architecture in Honor of Professor Katharina Otto-Dorn. Undena Publications.

BOOKS FORTHCOMING (completed manuscripts submitted to publishers):

2017 Abbas Daneshvari, Transformations in the Image of the Shepherd Sun-King in Early Islamic Art, forthcoming, University of Edinburgh Press.

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES AND MONOGRAPHS: 2015 Sabzi

2011 Abbas Daneshvari, “The Continuum,” Catalogue Essay for Luis Bermudez’s Exhibition of Myth, Place and Identity, At the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts in Ojai. Ojai, November 20th, 2010- January 16th, 2011.

2011 Abbas Daneshvari, “The End of Purity,” Catalogue Essay for Mahmood Sabzi’s Exhibition of The End of Purity at Tarrahan Azad Gallery, , September of 2011. Reprinted in Art Tomorrow, V. 6, Winter of 2012.

2011, Abbas Daneshvari, “The Pales and Forts of Mystery,” Catalogue Essay for Sadegh Tirafkan’s Exhibition of 0611, at the Etemad Gallery. Dubai, Nov. 2011.

2011 Abbas Daneshvari, “Always in Our Thoughts,” Catalogue Essay for Sadegh Tirafkan’s Always in Our Thoughts at the Los Angeles County’s Museum of Art’s Exhibition of The Gift of Sultans. Also available at www.Tirafkan.com

2011 Abbas Daneshvari, “The Triumph of Dance,” Catalogue Essay for Setareh Feylizadeh Exhibition of Setareh’s Retrospective at Dehli’s New Gallery, Dehli, India.

2002 Cecilia Miguez

1999 Abbas Daneshvari, The Vigil of a Winter’s Moon: The Paintings of Babak Emanuel, Delju Art Publications.

1998 Abbas Daneshvari, The Paintings of Mahmud Sabzi, Collectors Editions.

1998 Abbas Daneshvari Hessam Abrishami: A Retrospective, Collectors Editions.

1998 Abbas Daneshvari The Sakazaki Collection of Stewart Moskowitz Paintings. 1989-1996.

1989 Abbas Daneshvari The Incadescence of Terror: The Paintings of Akbar Behkalam, Mazda.

1987 Abbas Daneshvari The Mezotint Montages of Michael Pedroni, California State University, Los Angeles.

1986 Abbas Daneshvari Llyn Foulkes, Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

1985 Abbas Daneshvari The David Nellis Collection, Loma Linda University.

1977 Abbas Daneshvari Islamic Art at the Malone Gallery, Loyola Marymount University

ARTICLES:

2017 Abbas Daneshvari, “The Iconography of the Chahr-Taq in Medieval Islamic Archtecture,” edited by Rober Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh Press, forthcoming.

2016 Abbas Daneshvari, “Altruism and the Art of Koorosh Shishegaran” edited H. Keshmirsekan, Saqi Publishers, .

2015 Abbas Daneshvari, “Metaphor and Allegory in Tanavoli’s Art: The Artist as the Unifying Principle in a Fragmented Universe,” The Art of Tanavoli, Dubai, 2016.

2014 Abbas Daneshvari, “Deconstruction and the Contemporary Arts of Iran,” in Regional vis-à-vis Global Discourses, Contemporary Art from the Middle East, Proceedings of a Conference at School of Orientl and African Studies, University of London, July 2013, edited by Hamid Keshmirshekan, I. B. Tauris, London, 2014.

2014 Abbas Daneshvari, “Gardens of Iran and in the Ninth and the Tenth Centuries,” Festschrift in Honour of Shahryar Adle, Forthcoming.

2014 Abbas Daneshvari, “Joseph Beuys and Nietzsche’s Overman,” submitted to Colloquim on Modernism, , held at California State University, Los Angeles, 2015.

2011 Abbas Daneshvari, “Parviz Tanavoli: Of Existential Purity and Sophistication,” Art Tomorrow, V. 5, Summer of 2011, pp. 179-186.

2011 Abbas Daneshvari, “Koroush Shishegaran: Dionysian Energies,” Art Tomorrow, V. 3, Winter of 2011, pp. 166-178

2010 Abbas Daneshvari, “Massoud Arabshahi: Life in Forms,” Art Tomorrow, V. 1, Spring of 2010, pp. 174-181.

2007 Abbas Daneshvari, “From Mashu to Qaf,” Studies In Honor of Geza Fehervari, edited by Barbara Brend and Patti Baker, London.

2005 Abbas Daneshvari “Cup, branch, bird and Fish: The Image of the Ruler in Early Islam,” Studies in Honor of Robert Hillenbrand, edited by Bernard O’Kane, University of Edinburgh, 2004.

2005 Abbas Daneshvari, “Inscriptions on Persian Pottery,” A Survey of Persian Art, vol. XVIII, ed. Abbas Daneshvari, Mazda/Ashiya Publishers.

1998 Abbas Daneshvari “Simulations and Dissimulations in Postmodern Architecture, The Case of Los Angeles: Chaos and the Mythopoeic Mind,” Cities, October 98. London.

1997 Abbas Daneshvari “Ardabil,” Dictionary of Art.

1997 Abbas Daneshvari “Ardistan,” Dictionary of Art.

1997 Abbas Daneshvari “Kirman,” Dictionary of Art.

1997 Abbas Daneshvari “Tehran I: History and Culture,” Dictionary of Art.

1997 Abbas Daneshvari “Tehran II: The Arts,” Dictionary of Art.

1997 Abbas Daneshvari “Varamin,” Dictionary of Art.

1997 Abbas Daneshvari “ Nayin,” Dictionary of Art.

1997 Abbas Daneshvari “Woodwork in Iran and Central Asia before 1250,” Dictionary of Art.

1997 Abbas Daneshvari “Gunbad-i Qabus,” Dictionary of Art.

1994 Abbas Daneshvari “The Iconography of the Dragon in the Cult of the Saints in Islam,” Manifestations of Sainthood in Islam. G. Smith, editor. Isis Press, Istanbul.

1994 Abbas Daneshvari “Symbolism of the Peacock in Medieval Islamic Art,” The Art of the Seljuqs in Iran and Anatolia, Robert Hillenbrand, editor. Mazda.

1992 Abbas Daneshvari “Borj, ” Encyclopedia Iranica. Columbia University.

1982 Abbas Daneshvari “Symbolism of the Rabbit in the Manuscript of Warqa wa Gulshah.” Essays in Islamic Art and Architecture, Abbas Daneshvari, editor. Undena.

BOOK REVIEWS:

1986 Abbas Daneshvari “A Review of Muqarnas,” Int. Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 18/3

1980 Abbas Daneshvari “A Review of A. Welch’s Paintings for the Shah,” JAOS.

BOOKS PUBLISHED UNDER MY EDITORSHIP (Editor in Chief of Islamic Art and Architecture at Mazda Publishers)

2000 Hani Hamza The Northern Cemetery of Cairo, Mazda/American University of Cairo.

2004 Robert Mason, Shine Like the Sun, Lustre-Painted and Associated Pottery from the Medieval Middle East, Royal Ontario Museum/Mazda.

2004 Eva Baer The Human Figure in Islamic Art. Mazda.

1999 Stephen Blake, Half the World: The Social Architecture of Safavid Iran, Royal Ontario Museum/Mazda.

1996 Lisa Golombek, Tamerlane’s Tableware: Ceramic Arts of 15th and 16th Century Iran, Royal Ontario Museum/ Mazda.

1994 Robert Hillenbrand, The Art of the Seljuqs in Iran and Anatolia, Mazda.

1989 Rachel Milestein, Miniature Painting in Ottoman Baghdad, Mazda.

1987 Bernard O’Kane, Timurid Architecture in Khurassan, Getty/Mazda

Lectures (since 2004, only major institutions are cited):

2017 UCLA, “Metaphysical Subversions in Contemporary Iranian Art.”

2016 St. Andrews University, St. Andrews, Scotland, “The Iconography of the Chahr-Taq in Medieval Muslim Architecture.”

2013 Brunei Gallery, SOAS, University of London, “Deconstruction and the Contemporary Arts of Iran.”

2010 August 2010, University of Tehran, Department of Music and Ethnomusicology, “Music in the Art of the Great Seljuks of Iran.”

2010 December 9th, Intelligence Squared, “Animal Rights and Veganism,” Heather Mills, Peter Singer and Abbas Daneshvari debated three Professors of Oxford University on the issues related to animal rights and a vegan diet. Chelsea Town Hall, London

2009 July 1st, Moghaddam Museum of Art, Tehran, “How to Identify Seljuk and Il-Khanid Potteries.”

2008 June 30th, Tehran Archeological Museum, “Identifying and Dating Medieval Islamic Potteries.”

2004 December 2nd, University of London, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), “The Dragons of Islamic Art and Literature,” Brunei Gallery Auditorium.

2004 December 3rd, University of London, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), “The Astro- Cosmological Dragon,” Brunei Gallery Auditorium.

2004 December 6th, University of London, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), “The Ruler in Cosmic Setting,” Brunei Gallery Auditorium.

2004 December 7th, University of London, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), “Dragons in the Cult of the Saints,” Brunei Gallery Auditorium.