Hushang Irani ( fa, هوشنگ ایرانی; 1925 in

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– 4 September 1973 in

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) was an Iranian

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and painter. He is one of the pioneers of "The New Poetry" and surrealism in Iran.

The Fighting Cock days

Founded in 1950, ''Khorus Jangi'' ( fa, خروس جنگی, The Fighting Cock) was a small artistic group that published a journal by same title. In the beginning, ''Khorus Jangi'' was not significantly different from other literary journals of the time. A year later, however, ''Hushang Irani'', the ''enfant terrible'' of

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Persian poetry, joined the group. Under his influence, the journal was transformed into a radical

literary journal. It published ''Iranis poems, which no other literary journal of the day, and even almost no literary critics on those days, would dare to acknowledge as poetry. ''Irani'' has shrewdly observed and anxiously realized how the potentials that Nima had introduced into Persian poetry were being co-opted: Nima and modernist Persian poetry were in the process of becoming mainstream. Understanding this double edge of youthful tradition, Irani had both praised and condemned Nima. Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad & Talattof, Kamran.
Essays on Nima Yushij: Animating Modernism in Persian Poetry
'. Koninklijke Brill NV. Leiden, The Netherlands. 2004.

Works

Books

*;Poetry: **Spicy Violet on Grey ( fa, بنفش تند بر خاکستری),

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, September 1951 ** Grey ( fa, خاکستری),

, June 1952 **The curtain came into flame and the Devil came in ( fa, شعله‌ای پرده را برگرفت و ابلیس به درون آمد),

, November 1952 **I think all about you now, I think about all of you now ( fa, اکنون به تو می‌اندیشم، به توها می‌اندیشم),

, January 1956 *;Designs: **Some Designs ( fa, چند دِسَن),

, April 1952 *;Critical Essays: **Understanding of art: In the way to a worldview in art ( fa, شناخت هنر: در راه یک جهان‌بینی هنری),

, January 1952 **A letter to Mr. Hussein Kazem-zade Iranshahr: about his collection "Confucius" that he published in Tehran ( fa, نامه به آقای ''حسین کاظم‌زاده ایرانشهر'': دربارهٔ مجموعهٔ ایشان که به نام ''کنفسیوس'' در تهران منتشر شده‌است, italic=unset),

, 1956

Gallery

From the book "Some Designs" ( fa, چند دِسَن),

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References

External links

Hushang Irani on Google books
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