Majid Akhgar (b. 1975, Kermanshah, Iran) is an Iranian critic, writer, and translator. He holds a B.A. in Dramatic Literature and an M.A. in Cinema Studies from Tehran University of Art and is currently a Ph.D. student in Social & Political Thought at York University, Toronto. Over the past two decades, he has published numerous essays on art theory, history, and aesthetics. His books include (in Farsi): The Retrieval of the Sensible: Seven Essays on Aesthetics (Bidgol, 2016) and The Transient and the Lasting: A Critical Introduction to Iranian Painting (Herfeh: Honarmand, 2012). He translated Susan Sontag’s On Photography (Bidgol, 2014) and has co-edited the quarterly Herfeh: Honarmand since 2007.
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