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At the end of any historical and cultural phase, those who champion the new are often viewed as regressive and out of step with conventional taste. Thus, Tanavoli’s new art forms, inspired in the late ‘50s by his reformulation and configuration of indigenous Iranian art, and his fascination with the symbolism of the quotidian and mundane as well as the use of discarded materials for his sculptural forms, were treated by many, chief among them Mr. Pahlbod, Director of the Fine Arts Institute and later Iran’s minister of culture, as controversial and artistically regressive… ( from the text of the book )