The relationship between art and social commitment as constructed by‎ ‎cultural-literary journals of post Islamic Revolution (Case study: Keyhane Farhangi, Adineh and Donyaye Sokhan)

The Construction of a transformed meaning on art as a language is was a result of ‎publishing cultural-literary journals after Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979. The ‎constructed themes at some journals, considered the art in relation to social commitment ‎from different viewpoints. These attitudes toward art as referee stands in the field of ‎cultural thought, were influential on the definition trend of contemporary art in post ‎revolution Iran. This paper is raising the question; how the cultural-literary journals ‎‎dependent to dominant and competing discourses described the art in relation to social ‎commitment at the first decade of 1979 revolution? To respond to this question, 3 ‎journals, i.e. “Keyhane Farhangi”, “Adineh” and “Donyaye Sokhan” published at the ‎mentioned decade were studied and the stance of social committed art in these journals in ‎relation to discursive fields were analyzed. ‎
The thematic analysis of selected journals showed 2 approaches in these journals; an ‎approach considered the art commitment as a necessary issue to strengthen the revolution ‎and religion ideals and the other one considered the art commitment as attention to ‎socialism in a socialistic (left) view, but in every studied journals, social commitment of ‎art, is viewed as a mean to expansion of power field through ideologic artistic production. ‎This approach was biased to dominant discourse (religious-revolutionary discourse) at ‎Keyhane Farhangi journal and biased to competing discourse (intellectual-socialism) at ‎Adineh and Donyaye Sokhan journals.‎