Art and Dictatorship

The recent days of clashes in Iran, made me to think about the relationship between art and dictatorship.

Art has been used by dictators, tyrants and rulers as a political tool to communicate the message of the leaders to the public. But most predominantly, art has also been used against the dictatorship: as a tool to communicate “the” hidden message to its public.

In the following posts, I would like to discuss about the relationship between art and dictatorship. For now enjoy Chaplin’s monologue in The Great Dictator from 1940!