{"id":9803,"date":"2018-05-10T15:11:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T15:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/in-the-library-ara-aslanyan\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T15:11:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T15:11:38","slug":"in-the-library-ara-aslanyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/in-the-library\/2018\/05\/10\/9803\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Library: Ara Aslanyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The wide field which opened as a result of the revolution in Armenia was also open for public self-expression.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Slogans, symbols, songs, accessories, and ritual steps of different styles emerged. The revolution was not only massive, but also fashionable. And, of course, it emerged in marketplace items as well.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Designer, Vivaro company\u2019s creative director, Ara Aslanyan, considers the logotype of Dukhov, with his original font, to be a successful marketing move<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VlQCOm7U2Sw\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He thinks that the most important thing in a revolution is the leader, and it was the current RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan\u2019s character which inspired new creative and commercial ideas.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In the library drawers<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Fiction books sometimes help to better understand history (and ourselves in that story), than documents. Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa\u2019s book, The Feast of the Goat, is one of the best books which tries to explore the roots, justifications and, ultimately, the rewards of dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Feast of the Goat, published in 2000, uses Trujillo\u2019s 30-year dictatorship in the Dominican Republic and his murder as an opportunity to understand what happened\u2026<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">How did a whole nation begin to live in fear, in a state of violated dignity, economic and political monopolies, where everyone was simply a tool in the hands of one person?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">How did violence and acts of terror become everyday?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Llosa is a great master and an extremely politicized writer (he even participated in the Peruvian presidential elections), and that\u2019s what makes it interesting.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He thoroughly breaks down the idea of dictatorship and suggests coming to terms with the past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteright\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Gegham Vardanyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wide field which opened as a result of the revolution in Armenia was also open for public self-expression. Slogans, symbols, songs, accessories, and ritual steps of different styles emerged. The revolution was not only massive, but also fashionable. And, of course, it emerged in marketplace items as well. Designer, Vivaro company\u2019s creative director, Ara<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/in-the-library\/2018\/05\/10\/9803\/\"> Read the full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-library","author_posts-gegham-vardanyan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}