The Art migration in modern Iranian sculpture(A case study of the works of Azerbaijani refugee sculptors and painters)

Khanmohammadi, Ali; Pakdaman, Yusef

doi:10.22034/scart.2023.62774

The Art migration in modern Iranian sculpture(A case study of the works of Azerbaijani refugee sculptors and painters)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Ali Khanmohammadi ¹
Yusef Pakdaman ²

¹ Ph.D. student of sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran

² Ph.D. student of sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran

10.22034/scart.2023.62774

Abstract

The refugees of Russian Azerbaijan were among the most suffering group among the refugees of the Caucasus. They are among the communities that were neglected by researchers. These refugees played a significant role in the formation of contemporary Iranian sculpture and painting. By conducting a fundamental research, the authors have investigated the effects of Azerbaijani refugee artists on contemporary Iranian sculpting and painting and the influence of Iran's socio-cultural contexts on their works. This article has analyzed five works and the biography of the famous Azerbaijani refugee artist with the method of cultural semiotics. The authors have investigated these texts by using the concepts of text, cultural trauma, semoisphere, identity and stranger sociological form. In this research, the introduction of Azerbaijani refugee artists and their position in the creation and stabilization of modern art in Iran was discussed. A total of 136 symbols have been extracted in the study of texts. The authors of three codes of nostalgia of Iran and tradition, difficult life and identity crisis in these works. The loss and loyalty to the elements of the national culture (textuality) of the products has been one of the mechanisms of rejection and attraction of the Iranian text for the refugees. With the semiotics of these texts, the identity framework of Azerbaijani refugees was found in the semoisphere contemporary Iranian art. They faced the social amnesia of Iran's art community despite their prominent works in urban art and their contribution to the education of sculpture.

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