coffee houses at qajar age an infrastructure for folk art boom

Coffee Houses at Qajar age an Infrastructure for Folk Art Boom

The present research with an emphasis on coffee houses at Qajar age has recognized motives and effect of social and political factors such as conditional event in formation of art traditions in coffee house so as to examine the communication function of coffee house painting at this space. Coffee house at Qajar age has been found as a place for people’s gathering which had communicative-cultura...

Coffee houses and reading rooms.

An Approach to Shared Infrastructure in Islamic-Iranian Architecture (Evidence-Based Design for Architecture Façades of the Qajar Period)

Given the changes that have taken place in recent centuries, many changes have occurred in the facade and its elements, and has caused turbulence in the visual appearance of buildings. However, throughout the history of the late Qajar and early period of the first Pahlavi era, architectural styles have been the continuation and complement of previous styles. In the history of Iranian architectu...

Pixel Patchwork: a Digital Folk Art?

This paper is about a novel form of grassroots playful performance on the Internet. In a channel (chatroom) called “rainbow” on IRC (Internet Relay Chat), participants communicate in real time mainly via images created from letters and other computer keyboard symbols. Images are “tokens for interaction,” both “art” and “communication.” The paper reports on six years of participant observation o...

A Comparative S‌tudy on Pop, Elite and Folk Art

Pop Art is the representative of a cultural identity that has been represented as a kind of art in the mid-twentieth century. It is based on the ordinary manifes‌tations of people’s lives, and by concentrating on media and propaganda it has become pervasive in a short time as if it is a newly emerged culture that has appeared not from the inside of community but from outside and by those sociol...

Hierarchical Modular Systems with Elements of Folk Art

Hierarchical modular systems are composed of identical elements assembled by systematic rules based on rotational group. The systems are characterized by hierarchical symmetries and their regular outlines defined by the last rules. To introduce fundamental an element of Japanese folk art into an initial module of our system, we can form various hierarchical symmetric patterns composed of identi...