Cultural context and levels of art criticism and their reflection in contemporary Arab ceramic sculpture Research extracted from a dissertation

Abstract

      The current specialized research presents the tagged (the cultural context of ceramic sculpture and its presence in the levels of art criticism) that paved the way for the emergence of the context in ceramics active in life, so that this relationship will indicate the development and presence of ceramics or not and the volume of its circulation in the joints of the culture of the Arab recipient. As a result, the researcher collected scientific materials to serve the subject of the research in four chapters: The first chapter (the general methodological framework) to clarify the problem of the research. And the circulation of contemporary Arab ceramic art, as for the temporal boundaries that were set in the years (2000-2022) The spatial boundaries are the Arab countries, then the research terms were identified and defined. As for the second chapter (theoretical framework): In the third chapter (research procedures), the researcher reviewed the presence of ceramics in the Arab reality by analyzing ceramic sculptural patterns for the Arab countries and according to the cultural context of each country. The research was determined by the artistic works (ceramic sculpture) produced by the Arab potters. - The research sample: The researcher resorted to selecting a sample that represents the boundaries of the research, its objective, and the framework of a community. - Research tool: In order to achieve the goal of the research and to identify (the cultural context of ceramic sculpture and its presence in the levels of criticism technical), The researcher adopted the indicators concluded by the theoretical framework, and the researcher concluded in the fourth chapter a number of results: 1- The Arab audience formed a presence represented in the demand for works with peripheral contents in favor of types of cultural and artistic reception in addition to the factional and media. 2- Formal behavior in art. The contemporary Arab, the Arab receiver voluntarily accepts the forms within the ceramic sculptural work and their abbreviations brought by the postmodern culture, contrary to what we have seen, as it simulates the forms through their symbols and meanings on the one hand and preserves their contents on the other hand.