Contemporary Sculpture and its Role in Strengthening National Identity (Selected models of Arabic Sculpture)

Abstract

Abstract

The tagged research is concerned with the promotion of national and contemporary identity, and it has worked to activate the creative act of the Arab artist, and this intermingling played on the production of artistic texts that displaced the traditional methods and boundaries of artistic identity design in the contemporary global cosmic formation.

 The research included four chapters, the first chapter was devoted to explaining the research problem and defining the terminology, opening the research problem by answering the following question: What is the national identity, its principle and its rules? How is national identity manifested in contemporary sculpture? It also included its importance and need, its purpose and limits and defining terminology.

 As for the second chapter, it included a section, about the first (identity / its concept, foundations and types), and the second topic included (national identity in the contemporary Arab formation(.

 As for the third chapter, it included the research procedures, in which the framework of the research community was determined, and samples were selected from the sample of (4) models, and the sample models were analyzed, while the fourth chapter was concerned with the research results, discussion and conclusions.