Title: Visual Modernity in the Arab World, Turkey and Iran: Reintroducing the “Missing Modern”
Abstract: from former art practices peculiar to the region and not from the adoption of Western art in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century.This mislabelling is due, among other issues, to two main factors: a field of research which is still in its infancy and, resulting from and directly tied to this, a generalized neglect of the initial phase in which art in its Western modality was introduced in the region.