Cultural Specificity in the Visual Industries between Originality and the Contemporariness . A study in anthropology of arts | ||
Journal of University of Anbar for Humanities | ||
Article 45, Volume 2021, Issue 2, June 2021, Pages 2319-2338 PDF (502.34 K) | ||
DOI: 10.37653/juah.2021.171735 | ||
Author | ||
Harith Ali Hassan Al-Obaydy | ||
Abstract | ||
Visual industries can present impressively useful and pleasant forms. The main practice of the visual industries, i.e. pictures and words does not only implicate their aesthetics or the aesthetic taste influence, but also their capacity to understand and contain the psychological and sociological reality in a comprehensive, integrated and meaningfull manner as well as their capacity to reveal both the masked human world and the embellished external world. The dialectical analyses of the relation between Art and Society is related at the same time to the principal of aesthetic analysis regarding the social function of Art . Each of them form (together with philosophy, sociology and ethics) in its own manner a fundamental part of people's social consiousness. The visual industries are not created for pleasure and entertainment as much as they are created to reflect the human knowledge of the universe and life. They are an intellectual knowledge that enables to go deeper into the society as a reflexion of the informations and expressions acquired from the natural and social worlds. Nowadays, we see them enter in the society of knowledge in all their manifestions and results on a manner that can be an expression for cultures with their varied and multifacted characteristics. That is why the researcher decided to do this study in order to try to find out what visual industries are as well as to identify the pattern of their role in the society of knowledge by relying on a multiple methodology based on the multiple approaches for briefing and exploring the most important aspects of the topic. The study has reached many results of which the most important is that the visual industries represent an important area in the daily social life of the people and society. Human beings have turned to the image industries because of their importance as intellectual products that enable people to satisfy their multiple needs. | ||
Keywords | ||
culture; Visual Industries; Arts | ||
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