نویسندگان
1 گروه پژوهش هنر دانشگاه هنر اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران
2 گروه هنر اسلامی، دانشگاه هنر اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
In the final decades of the Qajar era, the discourse of Constitutionalism, centered on the master signifier of “freedom,” offered a new configuration of power relations, political institutions, and Iranian society. This shift in discursive space also manifested itself in cultural and artistic domains. Handicrafts, too, entered into certain relations with this space. The present descriptive-analytical article seeks to qualitatively analyze the relationship between handicrafts—particularly the medium of carpet weaving and the case study of the Baskerville Carpet—and the discourse of Constitutionalism. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s perspectives on discourse analysis, it asks: how did handicraft objects, in the process of articulating the themes of the Constitutional discourse, undergo formal and semantic ruptures and transform into instruments for representing identity, historical memory, and political action? Since discourse analysis concerns itself with how phenomena are constructed and deployed within an intertextual network of objects, subjects, relations, events, institutions, and knowledge/power systems, this framework provides the basis for inquiry.Findings show that handicrafts (especially carpet weaving) played a role in celebrating freedom-seeking figures and in representing Constitutionalist themes. The resemblance between the modes of presentation and imagery in Constitutional-era tiles and carpets, and those of photography—such as the focus on portraiture, realism, and the evocation of historical presence—indicates that some handicraft works of this period became tools for struggle, for representing modern concepts, and for participating in the public sphere. In other words, a rupture occurred in the function of handicrafts, through which the function of “freedom-seeking” emerged. Moreover, the inclusion of Latin script in the weaving of the Baskerville Carpet (as one of the earliest examples of a conscious break from the tradition of Persian-Arabic script in handicrafts) also signaled a transformation in the subject of the audience:new viewers who, through the act of seeing and reading, preserved the memory of Constitutional events.
کلیدواژهها [English]
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