Investigating the Place of Leftist Discourse on Traditional Policies in Artistic Fields

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 PhD Student in Political Science, Zahedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

3 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty Member, Sistan and Baluchestan University, Zahedan, Iran.

10.22034/ias.2020.220646.1196

Abstract

Arts as centers of concentration of artistic activities in the contemporary period became one of the significant institutions in disseminating ideological developments. Meanwhile, the leftist discourse in the Pahlavi period became one of the most imperative discourses in the political and social atmosphere of Iranian society. The issue that can be raised here is how the left discourse approaches the fields of arts. The research method of the present study, based on the purpose of the research, it is divided into basic and applied methods. The present study is applied in terms of purpose; likewise, according to the main purpose of the inquiry in terms of the relationship between variables, this study is descriptive with an analytical approach. In other words, this study examines the current situation and systematically and methodically describes its current situation and studies its features and characteristics and, if necessary, examines the effect of variables on each other. The research findings indicate that the theoretical and ideological foundations in the artistic and political fields attempt to gain their political legitimacy. Political activists and members of the bureaucracy and individuals affiliated with the governing body and the left discourse beheld features and characteristics that were partly the product of the political system. In other words, a particular type of "political culture" in the ruling class of the Pahlavi era existed that could explain part of the behavior of the rulers and the policies of the government of this historical period.

Research aims:
1. Scrutinizing the position of leftist discourse on traditional strategy in the field of arts.
2. Examining the situation of artistic fields in the Pahlavi period.

Research questions:
1. What was the approach of the left discourse in the Pahlavi period towards the artistic fields?
2. What was the situation of artistic fields in the Pahlavi period?

Keywords

References

Abdi, F. (2019). "The formation of the discourse of commitment in the painting of the Pahlavi era". Sixth National Conference entitled Committed Art in Contemporary Iran, Tehran. [In Persian]
Adibi, M. H. (1979). New middle class in Iran. Tehran: Scientific. [In Persian]
Ahmadi, M. A. (2017). Left discourse in Iran. Tehran: Phoenix Publishing. [In Persian]
Ashtiani, I. (1979). "Mohammad Ghaffari (Kamal al-Mulk)". Vahid, Nos. 262 and 263, 18-10. [In Persian]
Asadi, M. & Nadeian, A. (2013). "A Study of the Influence of Ideology and Political Thought on the Use of Visual Elements of Islamic Revolution Painting". Reference, No. 25, 88-65. [In Persian]
Azriun, F. & Akbari, M. (2016). "The Interaction of Literature and Art with Society from Adorno's Perspective." Two Philosophical Quarterly of Cognition, No. 1, 221-7. [In Persian]
Daliri, K. S. & Shahbazi, B. (2012). "Revolution; "Why and how to re-read the revolutionary ideology of the left parties of the Pahlavi period." Historical Sociology, No. 1: 23-1. [In Persian]
Farashahi Nejad, Y. (2019). "Research in the intellectual foundations of the literary theory of the Tudeh Party 1310-1330". Iran Namg, No. 1, pp. 190-85. [In Persian]
Hatem, J. (2002). Single figures of Qajar. Master Thesis in Art Research, Tehran: Islamic Azad University. [In Persian]
Historical Document Review Center. (2009). Women of the court according to SAVAK documents; Farah Pahlavi, Volume II. Tehran: Center for the Study of Historical Documents. [In Persian]
Ismailzadeh, Kh. & Shad Qazvini, P. (2017). "The Role of Discourses Influenced by Nationality in the Construction of Modernist Art Trends in Pahlavi Iran, Sociology of Art and Literature, No. 1, 13. [In Persian]
Ivanov, M. (2001). Modern history of Iran. Tehran: Slooj. [In Persian]
Jabbari, Gh. H. (1955). "Around this magazine." Engraving, No. 1, 2. [In Persian]
Kasra, N. (2001). Influential women of the Pahlavi dynasty. Second Edition, Tehran: Namak. [In Persian]
Khaksar, A. (2009). "Musical Reformation: A Study and Critique of Iranian Traditional Music with an Approach to the Iranian Musical Tradition". Bi-Quarterly Journal of Sociology of Art and Literature, No. 1,20-10. [In Persian]
Khosropanah, M. H. (1998). Tudeh Party Officers Organization of Iran 1333-1323. Tehran: Shirazeh. [In Persian]
Muridi, M. R. & Taqi Zadegan, M. (2012). "National Art Discourses in Iran". Quarterly Journal of the Iranian Association for Cultural Studies and Communication, No. 29, 160-139. [In Persian]
Pashaei Kamali, F. (2018). "The Impact of the New Art Movement on the Architecture of the First Pahlavi Period". The first national conference on modern research in architecture and urban planning in the third millennium. [In Persian]
Qezelsofla, M. T. (2009). "Aesthetics and Politics; "The reflection of politics in the realist approach to art." Journal of Political Science, No. 1, 197-167. [In Persian]
Sadeghi, Sh. A. & Mohammadi, S. (2015). "Left Current, Intellectual Dialectics and the Islamic Revolution of Iran". Journal of the Islamic Revolution, No. 15, 167-147. [In Persian]
Islamic Art Studies
Volume 18, Issue 41 - Serial Number 41
February 2021
Pages 92-102

Files

Share

How to cite

Statistics