the 20th century is the modern age and the time for the realization of mankind's dreams, mankind who aided by his intellect and science, creates a new world and expands the different limits of his life's aspects with utmost speed. the changed modern world creates artists who in turn create new thoughts and ideas. in the beginning of the second half of the 20th century and in the after...

objective: the purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of expressive arts therapy on decreasing anxiety of orphaned girls living in family-like centers of mashhad, iran.  methods: one week prior to final examinations, participants were randomly assigned to either an expressive art-making group or a control group. the state-trait anxiety inventory was administered before and after...

Among the main challenges of the predictive brain/mind concept is how to link prediction at the neural level to prediction at the cognitive-psychological level and finding conceptually robust and empirically verifiable ways to harness this theoretical framework toward explaining higher-order mental and cognitive phenomena, including the subjective experience of aesthetic and symbolic forms. Bui...

modern aesthetic is separated its account from classic aesthetic in the categories as meaning and beauty, and is shaped new aesthetic experiences. in the modern time isn’t a trace from static and stable attitude to world in the science and even art. when a work describes with terms like modern and post modern, we must be expect that encounter difficulty in its understanding. the works have very...

the storytelling with picture (pardeh-khani), as one of the traditional forms of theatre in iran has many capabilities in artistic and dramatic expression. yet, about this kind of traditional theatre, many researches has been accomplished about its structure and performing methods. the main question of this article is that, is it possible to use this theatrical form in one of the most important...