Sociological analysis of the evolution of Iranian painting in the Qajar period

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
hamid shakeri 1
sara shariati mazinani 2
mehrdad navabakhsh 3
1 PhD in Sociology, Member Institute of Iranian Studies, London, England
2 Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Tehran
3 Professor of Sociology, Islamic Azad University Science and Research Branch
10.22034/jcsc.2022.540436.2472
Abstract
In this article, evolution of Iranian painting in the Qajar period from sociological perspective was examined. in the meanwhile, by searching aboat the evolution of Iranian painting during the transition from tradition to modernity and emphasizing the role of two prominent painters of this period, namely Sani-ol-Molk and Kamal-ol-Molk, with using Pierre Bourdieu's sociological theories of art and specifically the theory of social fields and habitus. in order to find appropriate answers to these questions, we search aboat: what is the relationship between the paintings of Sani-ol-Molk and Kamal-ol-Molk in the interaction between their character and the rules and logic of power and the field of artistic production? why, in spite of the joint training (habitus) of Kamal-ol-Molk and Sani-ol-Molk, in the end, Kamal-ol-Molk took a different path from Sani-ol-Molk in the subject and subject? has the emergence of the constitutional movement changed the attitude of the perfectionist and his transition from an "affiliated pole artist" to an "independent pole artist"? for this purpose, we used Bourdieu's formative structuralist method, which follows an integrated approach, and finally, after analyzing it, we came to the conclusion: Kamal-ol-Molk, influenced by the constitutional revolution and in response to the social changes that resulted, by passing through the "dependent pole artist" he has become an "independent pole artist" and this fundamental and important development can be considered as the beginning of the formation of an independent painting field in Iran.

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