Zahra Partovi
Zahra Partovi (born 1944) is an Iranian translator, composer, filmmaker and bookbinder based in New York City. Partovi is known for her translations and interpretions of the work of Persian poet Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī (1207-1273), in the form of artist books, exhibitions, performances. Partovi holds degrees in English from the University of Tehran and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, where she was awarded the A.V. William Jackson Fellowship.
Rumi
Partovi has created 15 limited edition artist books published by Vincent FitzGerald & Company in collaboration with many visual artists, including Susan Weil, Bernard Kirschenbaum, Betye Saar, Michelle Stuart, Bernard Kirschenbaum, Ted Kurahara, Mark Beard, James Nares, Sandy Gellis, and Dorothea Rockburne. All of the Rumi texts published by Vincent FitzGerald & Company were selected and translated by Partovi.[1] Partovi's first work of translation made into an artist book was also the first work to be published by Vincent FitzGerald & Company, The Story of the Parrot & The Merchant in 1981.[2] This book is held in the special collections library of the J. Paul Getty Museum.[3]
Partovi also worked for the firm of Vincent FitzGerald as a bookmaker - binding books and creating collages.[2] She taught coptic bookbinding at the Center for Book Arts in New York, where she organized an exhibition "Coptic and Collage" in 1997.[4]
Her artist books have been included in many exhibitions, notably "Themes & Variations: The Publications of Vincent FitzGerald & Company" held at Columbia University, Kempner Gallery of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library in 2000.[5] Partovi's artist book Fragments of Light, made in collaboration with visual artist Kelly Driscoll, was included in the 2009 exhibition "Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam" at the Brooklyn Museum.[6] In 2009, Partovi had a multimedia installation inspired by the poetry of Rumi exhibited at the Center for Book Arts titled “A Poet Speaks," which was reviewed in The New Yorker.[7]
Partovi collaborated with 15 visual artists to create Divan e Shams, an artist book on Partovi's selected translations from Rumi's collection of poems.[8] Editions of this book are held at several prominent collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY[9]; the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN[10]; Lyrik-Kabinett, Munich Germany[11]; Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Washington, DC[12]; and Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New York, NY.[13] Partovi has taught the work of Rumi at The New School in New York.[14]
References
- ↑ "Gazelle in the Donkey Stable by Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi, Aleksandar Duravcevic". Art on Paper. 4: 68. May–June 2000 – via JSTOR.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Henry, Gerrit (March–April 1990). "Vincent Fitz Gerald Five Ruminations". The Print Collector's Newsletter. 21: 10–12 – via JSTOR.
- ↑ "The story of the parrot & the merchant / Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi ; translated by Zahra Partovi ; drawings by Don Kunz". primo.getty.edu. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
- ↑ "Coptic and Collage: Ancient Technique, Modern Application". Center for Book Arts. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
- ↑ Marshall, Lauren (March 30, 2000). "Limited-Edition Books as Multi-Media Art: The Work of Vincent FitzGerald & Co. displayed at Columbia". Columbia University News. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
- ↑ "Brooklyn Museum: Panel Discussion: Ruminations with Zahra Partovi". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
- ↑ Habib, Shahnaz (March 25, 2009). "A Poet Speaks". The New Yorker. Retrieved August 25, 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Moody, Tom (May–June 1997). "Paper Trail". On Paper. 1: 4–11 – via JSTOR.
- ↑ "Divan-E-Shams". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
- ↑ "Divan e Shams, Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi; Translator: Zahra Partovi; Artist: Joan Busing; Artist: Sandy Gellis; Artist: Elizabeth Harrington; Artist: Bernard Kirschenbaum; Artist: Ted Kurahara; Artist: James Nares; Artist: Dorothea Rockburne; Artist: Betye Saar; Artist: Annette Senneby; Artist: Michelle Stuart; Artist: Peter Thomson; Artist: Judith Turner; Artist: Marjorie VanDyke; Artist: Joan Vennum; Artist: Susan Weil; Publisher: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, New York ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art". collections.artsmia.org. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
- ↑ "Divan-e-shams. Selected and translated by Zahra Partov.(mit Radierungen, Siebdrucken etc). Num. 6/50 Ex - Stiftung Lyrik Kabinett". www.lyrik-kabinett.de. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
- ↑ "Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress" (PDF). 2014. Retrieved August 25, 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī; Partovi, Zahra; Busing, Joan; Gellis, Sandy; Harington, Elizabeth; Kirschenbaum, Bernard; Kurahara, T.; Nares, James; Rockburne, Dorothea (1996). Divan-e-Shams. Vincent Fitz Gerald & Company, Wild Carrot Letterpress, BookLab (Firm). New York: Vincent Fitz Gerald and Co. OCLC 43568680. Search this book on
- ↑ "Fragments of Light 5 - Graphic Arts". www.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
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