NEW BOOK WAS PUBLISHED ON IRANIAN-ARMENIAN PAINTER SUMBAT DER KIUREGHIAN

Noyan Tapan
Jan 21, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO, JANUARY 21, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Armen Der
Kiureghian, professor of engineering at the University of California,
Berkeley, has published a book about the life and work of his father,
Iranian-Armenian painter Sumbat Der Kiureghian. The book presents
Sumbat’s biography and art, written by his son, as well as 120 pages
of color reproductions of Sumbat’s paintings, personal anecdotes
and letters.

Der Kiureghian compiled the material over a period of nine years,
drawing on archival resources in Iran, Armenia and the United States.

The foreword is written by Armenian cultural anthropologist Levon
Abrahamian. Haroutiun Samuelian.

Sumbat particalarly painted Iranian and Armenian village scenes and
landscapes. According to , through his art,
he played the role of a mediator between East and West: he brought a
European artistic style to Iran and he introduced Iranian lifestyle,
folk traditions and landscapes to Western audiences.