In the early years of the French Revolution, most specifically in the Reign of Terror, depicting and performing statue mutilation was an iconography of political transgression. Inspired by and embodied in what the guillotine would do to the monarchs, this, as Nochlin (1995) believes, is truly modern in the revolutionary imagination, and “a castration image of unprecedented power and suggestiveness, is central to the Revolutionary discourse of destruction” (Nochlin, 1995: …

ادامه مطلب

The Taboo of Being Afghan: The Absence of Afghans’ Cultural Representation in Iranian Museums Sajedeh (Sarah) Bijanikia   Bactrian document in the Greek script from the 4th century mentioning the word Afghan (αβγανανο): "From Ormuzd Bunukan to Bredag Watanan, the chief of the Afghans"   Abstract Afghan culture and Identity suffer from miss-representation in the Iranian context. From the Safavid era to the present time, this miss-representation has manifested itself …

ادامه مطلب