Appearances of National Identity in Contemporary Arab Sculpture

Abstract

Abstract

The national identity constitutes a single effective in achieving privacy in various fields of life work, including the fields of sculptural work in which sculptors seek to achieve their privacy that transcends their sculptural works through the formal manifestations of that singular. The contemporary Arab sculptor is not far from this matter, in which he found what could announce his identity, including the details on which the general image of that identity is based, and this is what calls for research in an important aspect of contemporary Arab sculpture, which is the manifestations of national identity, within the contexts of scientific and artistic research formed The four chapters are as follows:

Chapter one: The general framework of the research, which is concerned with presenting the research problem, which is embodied in the question: What are the manifestations of national identity in contemporary Arab sculpture? In addition to the importance of research and the need for it, which is evident through the role of research in this field in achieving the privacy sought by each sculptor, in addition to the fact that the research here is of importance that can have cognitive returns for students and those interested in Arabic sculpture, which is of importance In achieving the goal of the research embodied in: Uncovering the manifestations of national identity in contemporary Arab sculpture. The chapter also contains an explanation of some important terms in the research.

Chapter Two: It includes the theoretical framework and consists of three sections: The first of which is concerned with a review of the term national identity and its main pillars. As for the second, it is concerned with the presence of the Arab plastic national identity.

Chapter Three: Research Procedures: In it, selected sculptural models from contemporary Arab sculpture will be analyzed and the search for what they carry from the manifestations of national identity.

The fourth chapter deals with the findings of the research related to the research objective.