Kashan’s Graffiti: A Purposeful Medium

Graffiti can be considered as a means of communication and a purposeful medium which informs people of what is going on in the lower layers of urban life, despite the restrictions having been imposed upon public places. Writings and pictures of the events and movements of the second half of the 14th century in Iran still remain on the city walls, through which one can get acquainted not only with the ideas and beliefs of people but also the activities of political and social groups. These murals are now a subset of the graffiti style of art. The present study examines those graffiti in Kashan which have survived from 1977 up to the late 1390s. The purpose of this developmental research is to introduce and document the graffiti of Kashan and to answer these questions: Have graffiti had an impact on Kashan’s society? How much it has been able to influence the development around Kashan. Therefore, deploying a descriptive-analytical approach and data collected through library studies and field forms. The research has founded out that the graffiti studied include a variety of contents including ideological, cultural, political, and religious ones that can be divided into the Islamic Revolution era, the imposed-war era, and the contemporary era.