Ketab e Karnameh: visual culture of Iranian children, 1950-1980

The Karnameh Exhibition of Visual Culture of Iranian Children is a journey through the early illustrations of school books, documentaries and works produced by pioneers of illustrations in Iran specifically from 1950 to 1980,” curator Ali Bakhtiari says. “The huge collection of intersecting archive materials including copies of books, images of illustrations and posters along with a selection of short films and animations will survey the influence of the West, and the East on Iranian productions over those years,”

The collection, which includes over 2000 items, also contains copies of books published in the United States and the former Soviet Union in the Persian language for Iranian children.This exhibit showcases how American illustrations have found their ways into Iranian images, followed by Russian and later European illustrations,”
It also portrays the efforts made by Iranian artists who have tried to produce and introduce their own national illustrations,