Baudelaire, Theoretician of Modern Art

Parallel Histories: A Comparative Study of Modern Art in the Works of Jalil Ziapur (Iran), Shakir Ali (Pakistan), Javad Salim (Iraq)

Comparative study of modern art in Iran, Iraq, and Pakistan explain aspects of indigenous in modern art. In this article we examine these questions: how did avant-garde artists in these countries attempt to find and match modern art with indigenous art? How did they experience indigenous modernities in art? In this article, by adopting a historical-comparative sociological approach, we analyze ...

Christian Norberg-Schulz and the Existential Space

The historian-theoretician Christian Norberg-Schulz, examining the development of his ideas across 30 years. While Norberg-Schulz started out with Intentions in Architecture (1963), a work that was clearly influenced by structuralist studies, he soon shifted to a phenomenological approach with Existence, Space and Architecture (1971), and then with Genius Loci (1980) and The Concept of Dwelling...

Handicrafts, Encountering Modern Technology

This article aimes to emphasize certain points concerning traditional art , and to put forward a question. As the term” Traditional art” is rather ambiguous, first we try to clarify it. To do so, we propose an approach somehow different from one generally admitted. Thereby, we discuss the reasons why it is not so easy to give a definition of traditional art, islamic art in particular, specially...

The Behavioural Tendency in Modern Art

« Since the 1960s, the British educator, artist, and theoretician Roy Ascott has been one of Europe's most active and outspoken practitioners of interactive computer art Ten years before the personal computer came into existence, Ascott saw that interactivity in computer-based forms of expression would be an emerging issue in the arts. Intrigued by the possibilities, he built a theoretical fram...

The Significance of Traditional Islamic Art for the Life of Muslim Societies in the Modern World