پیکره (Nov 2021)
The Influence of the Iranian-Turanian Ingenuity of the Painter in Illustrating the Social Place of Women in Courtship Paintings of the Vargheh and Golshah Manuscript
Abstract
Problem Definition: Research regarding the topic of "women" often exposes new aspects of the social culture of diverse epochs. The position of women in Iranian cultural geography bore many fluctuations from ancient times to the present day; hence, a means to study this position is to scrutinize historical illustrated manuscripts. In this study, two courtship themes from the illustrated version of "Vargheh and Golshah" are observed. This version, as the oldest illustrated version of Persian numerals, belongs to the late sixth and early seventh centuries AH. and is illustrated by "Mo'men Mohammad Khoei". This study seeks to answers the following two questions: What effect did the Iranian-Turanian originality of the painter and his cultural background have on his personal interpretation of the literary text, and how did this analysis affect the visual representation of the story? .Objective: The aim of this study is to understand the effect of the originality and socio-cultural context of the artist in the method of representation of a literary text with non-Iranian roots.Research Method: The research approach of this study is qualitative. Data is based on library information and scientific databases; moreover, the methodology is descriptive and analytical and Michael Riffaterre's intertextual semiotic theory is applied in data analysis.Results: According to the results of this study, it can be stated that the cultural context of the literary text, which comprises of a material and earthly assessment of "love" according to the Turanians and the productivity of men in any kind of decision-making in his personal reading is resolved by the painter and presents an Iranian view in which the woman devises an "active and dynamic" nature in love, decisions and social scenes.
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