The Graphics of Revolution and War: Iranian Poster Arts

Web Exhibits - Special Collections Research Center - Middle Eastern Posters Guide The University of Chicago Library
  • Introduction

  • The Iranian Revolution
  • Demonizing the Enemy
  • The Holy Defense
  • The New Karbala
  • Women and Children
  • Poster Artists

  • Additional Resources
  • About this Exhibit

Additional Resources

Website Resources:

Guide to the Middle Eastern Posters Collection 1970s-1990s

Hoover Institution Political Poster Database

Additional Reading:

Aghaie, Kamran (ed.). The Martyrs of Karbala: Shi'i Symbols and Rituals in Modern Iran. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004.

Aghaie, Kamran. The Women of Karbala: Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi'i Islam. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.

'Attar, 'Abbas. Iran: La Révolution Confisquée. Paris: Clétrat, 1980.

Balaghi, Shiva. "Iranian Visual Arts in 'The Century of Machinery, Speed, and the Atom': Rethinking Modernity," in Picturing Iran: Art, Society and Revolution, edited by Shiva Balaghi and Lynn Gumpert, 21-37. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Balaghi, Shiva. "Writing with Light: Abbas's Photographs of the Iranian Revolution of 1979," in Picturing Iran: Art, Society and Revolution, edited by Shiva Balaghi and Lynn Gumpert, 103-125. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Chelkowski, Peter. "The Art of Revolution and War: The Role of the Graphic Arts in Iran," in Picturing Iran: Art, Society and Revolution, edited by Shiva Balaghi and Lynn Gumpert, 127-140. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Chelkowski, Peter. "Iconography of the Women of Karbala: Tiles, Murals, Stamps, and Posters," in The Women of Karbala, edited by Kamran Aghaie, 117-138. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.

Chelkowski, Peter. "In Ritual and Revolution: The Image in Transformation of Iranian Culture," in Views 10 (Spring 1989), 7-11.

Chelkowski, Peter. "Iran: Mourning Becomes a Revolution," in ASIA (May-June 1980), 30-37.

Chelkowski, Peter. "Narrative Painting and Painting Recitation in Qajar Iran," in Muqarnas 6 (1989), 98-111.

Chelkowski, Peter and Hamid Dabashi. Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran. New York: New York University Press, 1999.

Chelkowski, Peter. "Stamps of Blood," in American Philatelist vol. 101 (June 1987), 556-66.

Davis, Joyce. "The Child as Soldier-Martyr: Iran's Mohammad Hosein Fahmideh," in his Martyrs: Innocence, Vengeance, and Despair in the Middle East, 45-66. New York: PalGrave Macmillan, 2003.

Fischer, Michael and Mehdi Abedi. "Revolutionary Posters and Cultural Signs," in Middle East Report 159 (July – August 1989), 29-32.

Flaskerud, Ingvild. Visualizing Belief and Piety in Iranian Shiism. New York, Continuum: 2010.

Gruber, Christiane. "Media/ting Conflict: Iranian Posters of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88)," in Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration, Con-vergence, Proceedings of the 32nd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art, ed. Jaynie Anderson, 710-715. Melbourne: Melbourne University, 2009. [article available at: http://umich.academia.edu/ChristianeGruber/Papers/443467/Iran-Iraq_War_Posters]

Hanaway, William. "The Symbolism of Persian Revolutionary Posters," in Iran Since the Revolution: Internal Dynamics, Regional Conflict, and the Superpowers, edited by Barry Rosen, 31-50. Boulder: Social Science Monographs, 1985.

Hermansen, M.K. "Fatima as a Role Model in 'Ali Shari'ati," in Women and Revolution in Iran, edited by Guity Nashat, 87-96. Boulder: Westview Press, 1983.

Hill, Cissie Dore. "Creating an Islamic Republic," in Hoover Digest vol. 4. Stanford: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, 2003. [http://www.hoover.org/publications/hoover-digest/article/6939]

Hiro, Diplo. The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict. New York: Routledge, 1991.

Karsh, Afraim. The Iran-Iraq War: 1980-1988. Long Island City, NY: Osprey Publishing, 2002.

Keshmirshekan, Hamid. "Contemporary Iranian Art: The Emergence of New Artistic Discourses," in Iranian Studies 40 (June 2007), 335-366.

Keshmirshekan, Hamid. "Discourses on Postrevolutionary Iranian Art: Neotraditionalism During the 1990s," in Muqarnas 23 (2006), 132-157.

Keshmirshekan, Hamid. "Modern and Contemporary Iranian Art: Developments and Challenges," in Different Sames: New Perspectives in Contemporary Iranian Art, edited by Hossein Amirsadeghi, 10-37. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2009.

Keshmirshekan, Hamid. "Neo-Traditionalism and Modern Iranian Painting: The Saqqa-khaneh School in the 1960s," in Iranian Studies 38 (December 2005), 607-630.

Long, David. "Oil and the Iran-Iraq War," in The Iran-Iraq War: An Historical, Economic and Political Analysis, edited by M.S. El Azhary, 38-50. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984.

Ram, Haggai. "Multiple Iconographies: Political Posters in the Iranian Revolution," in Picturing Iran: Art, Society and Revolution, edited by Shiva Balaghi and Lynn Gumpert, 89-101. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Seyf, Hadi. "Coffee-House" Painting. Tehran: Reza 'Abbasi Museum, 1990.

Shariati, Ali. Fatima is Fatima, translated by Laleh Bakhtiar. Tehran: The Shariati Foundation, 1971. [available at: http://www.al-islam.org/fatimaisfatima/]

Shirazi, Faegheh. "The Islamic Republic of Iran and Women's Images: Masters of Exploitation," in Muslim Women in War and Crisis: Representation and Reality, 109-138. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010.

Shirazi, Faegheh. "The Daughters of Karbala: Images of Women in Popular Shi'i Culture in Iran," in The Women of Karbala, edited by Kamran Aghaie, 93-118. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004.

Varzi, Roxanne. "Iran's Pieta: Motherhood, Sacrifice and Film in the Aftermath of the Iran-Iraq War," in Feminist Review 88 (April 2008), 86-98.

The Graphics of Revolution and War: Iranian Poster Arts
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