نشریه پژوهش هنر
پیاپی 1 (بهار و تابستان 1390)

Qajar era could be consideredas one of the most important historical periods in Iran and also was a transitional time when Iran was influenced by the west in many aspects such as political, social, cultural and artistic affairs. The most noticeable western impacts in painting seems to be humanistic attitude and some technical changes. Royal figurative painting was one of the most important painting styles in Qajar dynasty, and because in recent years semiotics like other analytical ways has helped us discover extensive meanings and intentions of art works, so the main topic of this thesis is reviewing this style through semiotics approach.Our purpose of studying this style via semiotics is analyzing illustrative signs in distinctive works during Fath-Ali Shah’s reign as the best moment of this style in order to achieve a new viewpoint of these works and analyze their extensive intentions. And furthermore, this study has been planned to be a hint of developing semiotic analysis in painting. This thesis has been intended to answer these questions: Was “showing authority” one of the main aims in paintings of Fath_Ali Shah Period? Was mythmaking one of the functions of these works? The selected methods for this research are analyzing context, semiotics based on it, library research and descriptive method. The majority of collected information is by the help of libraries, illustrative documents and note taking. The conclusion of semiotics analysis of a royal painting as a illustrative context is that by various pictorial elements in a context, we could figure out the intentions understand this style much better and more accurate, so that we will discover as many meanings as possible in these works.About royal paintings, it’s better to mention their political and promative functions. The main goal of creating these works is showing authority and cultural symbols are used for political impacts which was tried to make Fath-Ali Shah a mythical figure.

Romanticism is a great artistic movement which emerged in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century in Western Europe. Literature and fine arts such as painting, architecture and music were influenced by this movement. After explaining the Hegel’s theory of art, we discuss the idea of this german philosopher about the romantic period and applied it as the theoretical framework of our research. Although each discipline of art could manifest just certain and limited criterias of an unique field, but researching in the related fields, promote realizing of art and the artistic movements. Hence, this paper verifies the relationship between literature and architecture in the romantic era and it seems to be too beneficial while we are trying to develop the interdisciplinary approaches. At first, we intend to express the romantic characteristics of some literature documents; Then we describe a few signs of romantic architecture in the buildings. Finally, we analyze the similarities and the differences between the romantic literature and romantic architecture. We manage to achive this aim after studing the romantic elements in the art and, more specifically, in the literature and in the architecture and comparing them with each other.

Because of the outstanding place of tile-workings in the Persian vernacular architecture, its conservation has been followed by special considerations from the international observers as well as local stakeholders. The old relation between the historical works and local artists who were responsible for their maintenance and repair for centuries, has been dramatically affected by the drastic economical and technological evolutions which occurred rapidly during the recent decades besides the entrance of new concepts and values which were barrowed from the international conservation movement. This lead to rising of diverse and sometimes contradictory approaches which in the absence of a theoretical framework for their analysis, caused lots of problems in research and practice of tile-working conservation. Analyzing the content of research texts on conservation of tile-working, with emphasis on three decades of experimental works in restoration faculty of Isfahan as the products of scientific studies, this paper has detected three main directions in conservation of tile-workings: (a) efforts made on the basis of the continuity and sustainability of traditional methods of maintenance and repair (b) attempts based on the international modernist trends in conservation and finally (c) those based on laboratory researches for reviving and beautifying deteriorated glazes and historical tiles. Besides discussing the potentials of these approaches in defying and judging the current movements in conservation of tile-workings, the necessity of a more comprehensive approach for conserving the historic-cultural integrity of the Iranian monuments has been evaluated.

Hegel’s theory of tragedy with a focus on tragic collisions, opens a new way for commentators and critics. Hegel in the course of expression of his thoughts in this field, employed some of the great created works in this literary genre and presented a new interpretation of them. For Hegel the works of Greek tragedy had a prominent place, as referring to the name and content of these works is repeatedly visible in the texts of Hegel. But, to what extent his theory can interprete these works? This is an important question. Some with much sampathy try to interprete all the works that are called tragedy with the aid of Hegel’s theory and some against, it believing that though Hegel’s thought help to find a better comprehension of some works, but at the same time it is unable to interprete some other tragedies. In this essay, we try to review Theban plays –consisting of three plays: Oedipus the King (also called Oedipus Tyrannus or Oedipus Rex), Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone – with help of Hegel’s theory and consider correspondence between his theory and these three works and eventually adopt a position that not reject Hegel’s theory of tragedy, nor claim complete correspondence between his theory and all tragedies.

Kerman province is one of the most important areas of carpet weaving in Iran. No one can do research in a subject without having a knowledge about its idioms. Therefore explanation about phrases of carpet map reading in Kerman seems useful for carpet researchers. Traditional methods of carpet map reading in Kerman is with local songs that has positive influences in increasing weaving speed and quality of carpet. In addition, these songs had good effect on mental and emotions of weavers. In this study we have tried to research on these songs and local terms and explain them.

undoubtedly the so–called mashruteh constitutional movement in Qajar’s period has had a major role in awakening people against autarchy. The role of the caricature in lighting of thinks in the Revolution period isn’t less than the verbal satire. Though this art and literature the pass from the tradition to modernism, but most of scholars spend their main notice to introduce the verbal satire This essay attempts to provide a critical Study on Qajar’s period to find the reasons behind this lack of notice towards caricature compared with verbal satire, and to find the successes or failures of both of them.

(What) can we learn from Art? The relation between art and epistemology has been a matter of so much controversy. In this article we give some historical background on the debate and flesh out some of the important issues surrounding the question “(What) can we learn from Art?” A central question in Epistemology is: “what must be added to true beliefs to convert them into knowledge?”, If we accept it, then what is the central question of Art’s epistemology? Suggestion of this article is Art’s awareness.