Analysis of the Confrontation of Post-Revolutionary Wall Painting Discourses in Tehran (1979-2019)

Subject Areas : Social Science Quarterly

ali mobasherzadegan ¹ , zahra ghasemi ² , Malihe Shiani ³

1 - tehtan- ozgol-nobahar street
2 - Assistant Professor of Social Sciences, Central Tehran branch ,Islamic Azad University
3 - social planning Dep. social sciences faculty, university of Tehran. Tehran, Iran

Received: 2020-09-24 Accepted : 2021-05-11 Published : 2021-06-05

Keywords: "discourse", "Wall paintings", "Formal and informal", "Art politics", "Islamic Revolution of Iran",

Abstract :

Without exaggeration, the phenomenon of the Islamic Revolution in 1978 has been one of the most important factors affecting the biological field of Iranian society. Mural painting grew and expanded as a boiling point of politics with the public sphere at the time of the revolution. This period is like a turning point in the political history of Iran, the recognition of which can be the key to understanding how contemporary political and social currents are formed. Due to the relevance of the subject and the extraordinary ability of Laclau and Mouffe's theory of discourse in the analysis of socio-political affairs and phenomena, the researcher has chosen this theory as his theoretical and methodological framework, and the innovation of such research is that by using This theory, by basing the murals in the context of their emergence as texts that are the products of discourse, has sought to answer the question of how the political discourses of the revolution evolved into the stabilizing discourse of war and then according to each The period of rule of various signs has been added or reduced to the central sign of the revolution. In this regard, how the socio-political developments of the revolution and post-revolution in the murals have been the subject of this research. Examining and analyzing the central signs in the forty years of the establishment of the Islamic Republic, it became clear that the discourse of the revolution during the transition to the discourse of war and then the transition to the period of stabilization under the influence of sociology-political factors and shifting power relations with fundamental changes in world representation.