Contemporary artistic works are a part of art that because of their particular nature cannot be fitted into the definition and requirements of traditional art. Such works fit uneasily into the concepts of originality, idea-expression dichotomy and fixation as conventional copyrights works do. This results in lack or inadequacy in protection of these works within national and international laws....

The contemporary philosopher Jean Baudrillard, one of the postmodernism theorists, considers representation in the contemporary world as a factor in the disappearance of reality. In his view, the main feature of new arts is not the expression of artistic beauty, but communication with the audience and expression of the artist’s ideas. In interactive art, the presence and role of the audience in...

Urban spaces and in other words urban design and architecture have been found with close linkage with art and beauty especially the arts such as painting and sculpture. Addressing beauty at different areas such as creation of galleries to offer works of art, addressing form of urban spaces and representing works of art in urban environment have improved social life and increased identity, conse...

  The indissoluble link between literature and art has led to the introduction of literary subjects to Islamic art decoration. Among these themes is the fish that has been of interest to artists of various fields and literature for a long time nowadays due to the deep mystical and symbolic themes. This research, of qualitative and descriptive-analytical type, attempts to extract the mystical co...