The art theorist W.J.T. Mitchell has argued that “Pictures want equal rights with language‚ not to be turned into a language (82).” Indeed‚ picture has an ability to make issues of the world become visible in a sort of photochemical language. In Shirin Neshat’s Rebellious Silence‚ which is one of the photographs of her Women of Allah series‚ she depicted a portrait of a typical Muslim woman who is veiled and armed. The woman is holding a rifle‚ and the long barrel bisects the portrait perpendicularly
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Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi is a memoir in which she outlines her own life and the life of women in Iran. Throughout the novel‚ her focus remains on the role of women in Iran. She paints a portrait of her own self‚ whose drive and courage never allowed her to be silenced. She speaks of her experiences as a woman in Iran before‚ during‚ and after the Revolution of 1979. Her story begins as a child‚ before the revolution. She grew up in a very liberal home. Both parents were very intellectual
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Shirin Ebadi uses her novel Until We Are Free as an opening into a world that we could never imagine. A world where the freedom of speech is not a freedom given by the government but persecuted by the government. Where political activists and defenders of human rights are looked at as criminals. A world where she was once able to practice law as a judge and live securely in her home in Tehran with her loving husband and two daughters. However‚ Ebadi describes that this is no longer the case in Iran
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long battle of the government limiting their natural rights‚ such as freedom and equality‚ due to religious traditions colliding with the state. Shirin Ebadi‚ an Iranian lawyer and activist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003‚ is a courageous‚ kind-hearted woman who was determined to help the people of her country gain their freedoms. Although Shirin Ebadi is widely known for her fight for the justice of women and children‚ a few critics have considered Ebadi’s efforts as small or limited in
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of text within art can shift our appreciation of their sound and meaning. Artists that explore text in art include: Barbara Kruger‚ Yukinori Yanagi‚ Katarzyna Kozyra‚ Jenny Holzer‚ Wenda Gu‚ Shirin Neshat‚ Miriam Stannage‚ Colin McCahon and Jenny Watson. Artists such as Jenny Holzer‚ Wenda Gu and Shirin Neshat explore the cultural implications of language in art and the importance of language to identity through the inclusion of text that reflect a postmodern concern with the way we receive information
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In using Farrokhzah’s verses‚ Neshat expresses her feelings about the parallels between binaries such as tradition-modernity and men-women. Farrokhzah’s poetic work centers around forbidden and controversial themes for women‚ Neshat’s use of her words is fitting as Women of Allah has the of agency of the Muslim women’s body as Farrokhzah’s work speaks of agency over ones womanhood. Neshat’s also uses the poems of Tahereh Saffarzadeh‚ a well-known Iranian writer and poet. Saffarzadeh described herself
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Case study- Extended Response Art has always been a mean through which soul finds an opportunity to express its emotions freely. Many artists cannot separate issues of politics and society from personal and psychological issues. When it comes to the form of the work‚ there are issues of emotion‚ modes of expression and poetry. There is the issue of how an artist can make an impact on the audience which a politician or an academic cannot. An art that does not express emotions is not art. Works
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The screening began with a brief discussion by Guilan Siassi‚ a language professor at USC. She provided historical backstory for the film‚ mentioning specifically the 1953 coup (which I will discuss later) in Iran. Siassi also explained that the film‚ an adaptation of Shahrnush Parsipur’s novel of the same name‚ was made in the magical realist style‚ which has a strong historical component and presumes that viewers have a bond with the history and culture of the characters in any given picture.
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Ugly or Beautiful? It is well known that beauty and ugliness are opposites. If that is so‚ how can art be ugly and beautiful at the same time? Some pieces of art are ugly to the eyes but beautiful mind. The Venus of Willendorf (Venus of Willendorf: 1-3) is an example of such. It is a small figure of a large woman. She has very large breast with skinny little arms rested on top of them. Her breast lay on her even larger stomach‚ which hangs down to just above her pubic area. Her pubic area and
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9/11 Memorial Tragedy struck our nation in New York City on September 11th‚ 2001. That September morning was much like any other until 8:46 a.m.‚ when terrorists‚ with links to al-Qaeda‚ flew two planes into the World Trade Center and killed thousands of American citizens. This day would forever be known as 9/11. Amid the destruction and confusion‚ there was an emerging controversy about how our nation would respond to the attacks. An international competition was held to design a memorial for the
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