Signs of Our Times: From Calligraphy to Calligraffiti

The first publication of its kind to cover sixty years of aesthetic innovation by Arab and Iranian artists. The artists included in this book took inspiration from their own cultural sources to create an alternative, original approach to modernism. Images of artworks in a variety of different media are interspersed with essays by experts, poems, and relevant literature to enhance the understanding of the importance of words in the artworks.