Provide a Model for Shaping the Subject in Comparative Studies and Research in the Field of Art With Emphasis on Interdisciplinary Studies

Consideration of comparative research as a "separate and different research process" is an issue that has not been addressed thoroughly, at least in Iran, and few of the research conducted under the title of "comparative" refer to studies conducted using different methods than the usual research methods. On the other hand, there has been a rise in the importance of interaction between different fields of knowledge in recent decades, and it seems that a different type of research is shaped, in which the approach and methods of one field of knowledge is applied to the corpus of other fields. This interaction between the areas of knowledge, called interdisciplinary studies, is intended for a broader and deeper understanding of research problems or questions. This study attempted to introduce and categorize different types of comparative studies in the area of art with an emphasis on interdisciplinary studies, aiming to provide practical and cognitive frameworks for categorizing such studies. This was a descriptive-analytical study And relying on the process and results of other related research, trying to complete the models presented for the formation, identification, and classification of comparative studies in art, based on the "type of relationship between research corpus in the field of art and other fields of knowledge" and "temporal and spatial scope of research corpus being compared." Data collection was done through secondary research and data analysis using the qualitative method. According to the results, interaction between other fields of knowledge with art studies can be categorized into two general groups, i.e. interdisciplinary studies and intra-disciplinary studies, which is the result of discourses and internal interactions of art disciplines in different languages and artistic media. Moreover, concerning the classification of comparative art research based on temporal and spatial scopes, the cognitive model presented by Zekrgou was taken as the basis and a few items such as preparatory comparisons and classification-centered comparisons were added to this model.