Art
Alireza Taheri; Samira Nasr Esfahani
Abstract
In the prehistoric and pre-Islamic civilizations of Iran, human beings have used sculpture and iconography to express their needs and beliefs. These works show the attitude, culture, cover, religion, and progress in the life of the past in ancient Iran. These figurines included animals, humans, and even ...
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In the prehistoric and pre-Islamic civilizations of Iran, human beings have used sculpture and iconography to express their needs and beliefs. These works show the attitude, culture, cover, religion, and progress in the life of the past in ancient Iran. These figurines included animals, humans, and even mythological and religious sculptures that were produced in each period according to the knowledge of the day with their own materials and methods. Each of these works had its own consumption and special application according to human needs at the same time and the changes in attitude, religion, beliefs, and daily life of the time made the figurines with different coverings, arrangements, decorations, exaggerations, and accents. The Iconography of pre-Islamic woman in Iran is a translation of two articles by Aurelie Daems, a Belgian researcher and archaeologist, published by Ali Akbar Vahdati in 2009. However, this book provides very useful and valuable information to researchers and archaeologists, but like any other scientific work, it has its drawbacks.
Art
Alireza Taheri; Batool Maazallahi
Abstract
While the study of Islamic art is not very rich in the study of the human image, Eva Beer’s book "The Human Body in the Islamic Art of the Past Heritage and Post-Islamic Developments" is one of the only books in this field. In this book, the author examines the human image in the art of Arabs, ...
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While the study of Islamic art is not very rich in the study of the human image, Eva Beer’s book "The Human Body in the Islamic Art of the Past Heritage and Post-Islamic Developments" is one of the only books in this field. In this book, the author examines the human image in the art of Arabs, Iranians, Gurkhas, and Ottomans. He has been a lecturer at the Museum of Islamic Art for many years and wrote the book in 2004. Although the author's efforts to collect research data are commendable, there are criticisms of the way research and methodological issues in the book are handled. Deficiencies in book methodology have led to the breakdown of communication between the book and the reader, despite the novelty of the research. The present article attempts to examine and explain the shortcomings of the methodology of the book and provide suggestions for their solution.
Art
Alireza Taheri; Sahar Sadeghi
Abstract
Creativity is the most basic ability of the human brain. The artist with visual communication always tries to create great ideas with new ideas. Bruno Monari is an artist and creative innovator. In 1967, Monari initiated innovative experiences and training of interested students at Harvard University ...
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Creativity is the most basic ability of the human brain. The artist with visual communication always tries to create great ideas with new ideas. Bruno Monari is an artist and creative innovator. In 1967, Monari initiated innovative experiences and training of interested students at Harvard University and included their experiences, successes, and failures in a book entitled “Visual Design and Communications: Contribution to a teaching methodology”. This article introduces and critically examines the book of Bruno Munari, which was translated by Paiandeh Shahandeh in 2008. The purpose of this article is to express the points to be considered in order to make the work more effective and to introduce more and more of the author’s approach to planning for a complete teaching of visual communication at universities and colleges in the country. The research methodology is descriptive-analytical with a critical approach, and the tools for collecting library data, articles, and Internet resources are valid. The book can be enriched by providing more creative images and pictures, giving them the right logical consistency, and deleting and adding parts of the content to its beneficial coefficient for all those related to visual arts.
Art
Alireza Taheri; Roya Zarifian
Abstract
Different approaches were taken by scholars in the field of Islamic art studies, each placing their reliance on different concepts. In the meanwhile, historicism is based on two elements of embeddedness and interpretation. In this approach, the center of gravity of studies corresponds to understanding ...
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Different approaches were taken by scholars in the field of Islamic art studies, each placing their reliance on different concepts. In the meanwhile, historicism is based on two elements of embeddedness and interpretation. In this approach, the center of gravity of studies corresponds to understanding the cultural concepts of objects and the architectural works in the specific time and place embed of producing these works, hence the factors, roots, and embeds of the realization of Islamic art is historically studied and its meaning is investigated as interpretation . Some critics' misinterpretations about the historical approach to Islamic art studies led to the concept and semantic confusion in this approach, therefore, the present study mainly concerns about providing a clear definition of the concept of historicism and its methodology through introducing and criticizing one of the most prominent works written by this approach. The Book of "The Ilkhanid Shrine Complex at Natanz, Iran", written by Sheila Blair is a striking example of the historicism approach that is of particular importance in terms of the methodological understanding of such studies.
