Title: Hajj and the Islamic Revolution
Photographer(s): various photographers
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Publisher(s): Ministry of Islamic Guidance (Ershad), Tehran, Iran
Year: 1983
Print run: 10.000
Language(s): Farsi
Pages: 214
Size: 21,5 x 29 cm
Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
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Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Iran, 1979 -1983
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Arguing that "this was primarily a pictorial revolution," Chelkowski and Dabashi devote much of their study of the "art of persuasion" to the visual archive at their disposal, what they humorously dub the "Museum of Furious Art."
Like all great ideological revolutions, the Iranian one has relied on every possible medium to get its message across: political speeches, print and electronic media, school books, movies, songs, poems, slogans, graffiti, murals, posters, banners, stamps, banknotes, coins, calendars, and even chewing-gum wrappers. Staging a Revolution examines these media for "the massive orchestration of public myths and collective symbols" in the making of the Islamic Revolution and the 1980-88 war with Iraq.
Staging a Revolution The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran
by Peter Chelkowski and Hamid Dabashi
This rare color book talk about the pilgrimage on a spiritual and political dimension with the Islamic Revolution. At the end of the book there is a report on pro-Khomeini demonstrations by Iranian pilgrims at Mecca in 1979, which were repressed by Saudi Arabian police. (reported in the book, Enghelab Street a revolution through books: Iran, 1979-1983 Hannah Darabi)