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'The Highest Form of Image Is Armed Struggle' by Hong Jin-hwon

'The Highest Form of Image Is Armed Struggle' by Hong Jin-hwon Image: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

Hong Jin-hwon’s featured work is titled 'The Highest Form of Image Is Armed Struggle.'

In 1971, the Japanese Red Army and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine left a declaration. That declaration stated, 'The highest form of propaganda is armed struggle.'

The slogan once condensed a radical imagination that believed systems could be overthrown, as well as an aspiration toward revolution.

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