Art in Dr. Seyed Hosein Nasr's Thought

Abstract

With the arrival of the modern era in west civilization and with major changes took place in the social, ‎cultural, artistic, and other fields. The effects of this trend in the field of art are visible as one of the concepts ‎of the new era with the emergence of fine art in the 18th century. Following the changes in the West, different ‎theorists have expressed many different critical views on the fine arts. Among the theorists who have presented ‎critical views about these modern times, especially about the fine arts is Dr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr who ‎presents his critical views about fine arts, architecture, poetry etc. and then expressed his opinions about this different type of Arts. He criticized and reviewed fine arts from a traditionalism ‎position. In this paper [article], Nasr's view of the concept of fine arts, the way these arts emerge, its cultural ‎and content characteristics have been studied. According to Dr. Seyed Hossein Nasr, the art of this era, on the ‎one hand, reflects western culture and its crises, and on the other hand, has played a significant role in ‎creating a new cultural space and the art itself has become a decorative object, which has separated art from ‎its traditional trend. The research method of this article is descriptive and analytical and the tool for ‎collecting information is library‏.‏