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 NESHAT Shirin Neshat is an Iranian Photographer and videographer born in 1974 who captures female and cultural/religious stereotypes in her works. Neshat’s work is that many of her images are endowed with a sense of empowerment. Her photographs include - Hands holding hands‚ forming a sense of solidarity‚ women in the possession of weapons‚ subverting traditional notions of gender roles and power. In the B&W photograph “Faceless” from the 1994 “Women of Allah” series Neshat can be seen wearing
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target audience. Consider how this artist’s work is available‚ where and by whom Shirin Neshat’s works are intended for a variety of audiences‚ however‚ the ones that I will discuss are the Western artists‚ male and female across the world‚ and women of any geographical region. Since Shirin Neshat’s works are extremely confrontational and goes against the government‚ her works are to be hidden from Iran. Therefore‚ Shirin Neshat’s works are displayed to other parts of the world‚ including the West.
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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 shaping reform; however‚ Ebadi fought her hardest for the freedom her people deserved
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Desmond Ashford SPEECHLESS Shirin Neshat is perhaps one of the best-known artists of the Iranian diaspora following the 1979 Revolution‚ which replaced a secular regime with an Islamic republic. Born in Qazvin‚ she left Iran at the age of sixteen to study in the United States; she received her BA‚ MA‚ and MFA from the University of California‚ Berkeley‚ before moving to New York. Neshat returned to the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1990 and much of what she saw and experienced informed
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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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most were the scenes involving Zarrin. One of the first scene you see her in is her having sex with a man in a brothel. This scene lasted longer than I had expected and I felt very uncomfortable watching it but I think that was what the director‚ Shirin Neshat aiming going for. I think the director was trying to give the audience a small taste of what the character was going‚ I found myself thinking “I can’t wait for this scene to be over” and I fell like Zarrin was thinking the same thing. This
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Abstract shapes * Patterns | CF Agencies: Artist: * Studied at the College of Fine Arts * Lives and works in Sydney * She has a strong foundation of drawing * Influenced by artists such as Kiki Smith‚ Louise Boirgeois‚ John Currin and Shirin Neshat as well as the drawings of Henry Darger. * Born in 1972 | Craven‚ Owen. “DEL KATHRYN BARTON INTERVIEW 2012.” Del Kathryn Barton. 2011. Web. 16 Oct. 2012. <http://owencraven.com/2011/05/del-kathryn-barton/>. | Material: * Never
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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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Short essay Wangechi Mutu and Shirin Neshat‚ are two powerful female artists with strong motives and messages behind their artworks. Even though these two women share the same message‚ they have very divergent styles of converting their message into art. Shirin Neshat’s powerful photographs and video installations illuminate the gender and cultural conflicts of her native Iran‚ she published a series of artworks called Women of Allah that overall broke every stereotype based on women‚ the artwork
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