Download or read book Undiscovered Minimalism written by Parviz Tanavoli and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the past two decades a previously unrecognized genre of startlingly modern looking large flatwoven hangings and covers (gelims) has emerged from an isolated highland region in Mazandaran Province in northern Iran. No one had imagined that hidden in the forests south of the Caspian Sea there could have existed such sophisticated treasures, which in their deceptive simplicity of abstract patterning and subtle coloring are much in accord with the aesthetic canons of contemporary minimalist art.