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The Art of Defiance: Dissident Culture and Militant Resistance in 1970s Iran

The Art of Defiance: Dissident Culture and Militant Resistance in 1970s Iran

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General ArtIran HistoryMiddle Eastern Art

ISBN10: 1474492231
ISBN13: 9781474492232
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Feb 14 2024
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

At a time of growing state control, censorship and wholesale crackdown on opposition in post-1953 Iran, intellectuals and artists began to produce works that defied the Shah's dictatorship and the regime's Great Civilisation propaganda. With the emergence of urban guerrilla warfare in 1971, dissident artists - spearheaded by Marxist People's Fadai Guerrillas (PFG) - created symbolic works that popularised the militants' ideas through artistic depictions and tropes, while portraying the militants as immortal freedom-fighters. The arts of defiance thus swayed young educated Iranians, as well as certain layers of the public, to perceive the state through the eyes of its most radical critiques: militant dissidents.

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