Chilean Protest Murals 1983-1990

Public art has a long tradition of serving groups and individuals seeking to offer artistic protest and dissent. During the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile, 1973-1990, hundreds of protest murals were created.

Photographer Andres Romero Spethman worked alongside muralist brigades representing political parties such as the Partido Socialista, the Izquierda Cristiana, or the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR). This digital archive from Harvard University brings together 532 high resolution images of these murals, which were created in and around Santiago between 1983 and 1990.

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