Islamic Art Studies

Islamic Art Studies

An Ontological Explanation of the Relationship Between Contemporary Graphic Art and Truth Based on Heidegger’s Reflections on the Artwork

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Azar Rahnama
Department of Graphic Design, Shahr-e-Qods Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran , Iran
10.22034/ias.2022.315316.1804
Abstract
Heidegger, by analyzing the origin of the artwork, introduces a new discussion about the relationship between the artwork and being, considering art as one of the manifestations of the realization of truth. This ontological perspective of Heidegger is highly significant and can be expanded and elaborated in various forms of art. Relying on this viewpoint, one can utilize it to reach the epistemological aspect and understand the nature of different branches of art. A technologically based art like graphic design can be a suitable subject for presenting an analytical theory based on Heidegger’s interpretation in understanding the essence of artistic manifestations and their relationship with truth. This research aims to study Heidegger’s views in order to find the relationship between the artwork and truth, while exploring the nature of graphic design by considering its artistic, aesthetic, instrumental, and technological features, and to explain the relationship between this art-industry and the emergence and revelation of truth. In interpreting graphic art based on Heidegger’s perspective, understanding the relationship between the creator’s world and being plays a fundamental role. Truth, as a message in a graphic work, passes through the world and the artist’s realm of thought and comes to manifestation, despite the presence of modern visual elements. Although this art belongs to a civilization dominated by science and technology, it reveals a truth through the manifestation of the artistic spirit, which emerges from the social, cultural, and historical layers of a nation.
Research Objectives:


To explain the relationship between truth in graphic works and their technological manifestation.


To articulate the epistemological aspect of graphic art from a philosophical perspective.


Research Questions:


How does truth become revealed in a graphic work?


Does the technological expressiveness of graphic art lead to the loss of its artistic truth?
Keywords
Graphic Art
Truth
Heidegger
Artwork
Graphic Work
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