The Indiana University Art Museum presents The Graphics of Revolution and War: Iranian Poster Arts an exhibition on view October 15–December 18, 2011.
Silhouette of Crowd with Shahada ca. 1970–1980 Middle Eastern Posters Collection Box 4, Poster 188 Special Collections Research Center The University of Chicago Library
This exhibition showcases Iranian posters of the Islamic Revolution (1979) and the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88). Scheduled during IU’s Themester on war and peace, the exhibition provides a framework for understanding how image-making and visual culture act as tools of persuasion in revolution and war in the contemporary Islamic world. The University of Chicago Library has created an on-line exhibitiion of the posters, which are on loan from the Special Collections Research Center of the University of Chicago Library. The guest curator of the exhibition is Professor Chistiane Gruber, University of Michigan, assisted by her graduate student Elizabeth Rauh. The organizing curator is Judy Stubbs, the Pamela Buell Curator of Asian Art at the IU Art Museum.
The exhibition is made possible with support from the Thomas T. Solley Endowed Fund for the Pamela Buell Curator of Asian Art, Themester 2011, IU Art Museum ARC Fund, and The Center for the Study of the Middle East. – www.iub.edu