Professor Talinn Grigor will be discussing her latest book at the Yale School of Architecture on Monday, March 28, 2022. Her book, The Persian Revival: The Imperialism of the Copy in Iranian and Parsi Architecture, was published in 2021 by Penn State University Press.

In her book, Grigor examines Europe’s discovery of ancient Iran, first in literature and then in art history, and the invention and use of a revivalist architectural style from the Afsharid and Zand successors to the Safavid throne and the rise of the Parsi industrialists as cosmopolitan subjects of British India. While Western imperialism was instrumental in shaping high art as mercantile-bourgeois ethos, Grigor argues that this was also a project that destabilized the hegemony of a Eurocentric historiography of taste.

This zoom presentation will be held Monday, March 28, 2022 at 6:30 pm EST.

This event is free and open to the public but registration required.