di'van Issue 2
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d iˈv a n | A Journal of Accounts offers critical interpretations on contemporary art and culture, and its broader historical, socio-political, and theoretical contexts, from the greater Asia (Middle East, South/Southeast/East Asia and Asia-Pacific) regions which determine historical and current socio-cultural affinities with contemporary Australian art and society.
CONTENTS
Editorial
ALAN CRUICKSHANK
The Arrival of the Demons
HODA AFSHAR
(Partisans) Kick the Corpse: Post-Truth and the Contemporary Art World
PAUL GLADSTON
The Specter of the Soviet Union
CHARLES MEREWETHER
The Super-Modernism of the Festival of Arts, Shiraz-Persepolis
VALI MAHLOUJI
Comparative Monument (Shellal): Steadfastness and the Temporal Body…
BRIDGET CRONE
Unpacking Ranbir Kaleka’s Toolbox: the Artist as Artificer
NANCY ADAJANIA
Rebranding the Mahathir Era
RAY LANGENBACH
The Loss of Centre
ROBIN PECKHAM
Art is Not Magic
ALEX GAWRONSKI
Demons and Deliverance
SALIMA HASHMI
Published by DI'VAN ART JOURNAL (Alan Cruickshank) and UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture
Editor: Alan Cruickshank
Design: Alan Cruickshank
ISSN 2207-1563
© Copyright 2017 Alan Cruickshank in conjunction with UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture, Sydney, the authors, and artists.

Image: Khadim Ali, 'The Arrivals No. 6' (detail) 2016. Courtesy: the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane