Nabard-i Farhangī va Hunar-i Mu'āṣir: Muqayisah'i Farānsavī - Āmrīkāyī: Persian 1401

This book presents the results of a survey carried out in 1996 on the East Coast of the United States, still shaken by the "culture war" that had raged for ten years, opposing supporters and opponents of public funding of controversial works. This work extended in a comparative perspective a first survey, carried out in France from 1993 to 1995 when the “contemporary art crisis” had broken out. This comparative perspective, oriented towards a sociology of values, makes it possible to highlight the similarities and differences between these two cultures which, from "scandals" to "business", call upon a common range of arguments, values, and registers of values, but not always with the same intensity, neither about the same objects nor in the same contexts, to the point of sometimes generating a surprising effect of strangeness. So beyond the apparent similarity, what mainly emerges from this trip to contemporary art is the feeling of a deep “cultural” gap between the two countries.