Studying the Semiotic Role of Holy Icons in the Illustration of the Children and Teenagers’ Religious Story Books

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AFSHARI MORTEZA

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Journal: NEGARINEH ISLAMIC ART Year:2020 | Volume:7 | Issue:19 Page(s): 119-134

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Studying the Semiotic Role of Holy Icons in the Illustration of the Children and Teenagers’ Religious Story Books

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AFSHARI MORTEZA | Issue Writer Certificate

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Holy Quran

Illustration

Icons

Symbol

Children’s books

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Trends and interests of the Islamic society to the divine persons and Imams in the visual arts, particularly in the forty years after the Islamic Revolution, caused the creation of artistic works in various branches of visual arts, in which Icons of Imams act as the main element. Among the various areas of the visual arts that faced seriously with the iconography, this paper focused on the painting and illustrating the children’ s religious story books. In more detail, the author sought to investigate the Islamic iconography through the religious Illustration taken from the stories of the Quran and religious books published for children and teenagers. Thus, the author tried to answer these questions: 1) what features of Persian painting and drawing have used by illustrators in making the sacred Symbolic Icons? And, 2) do artists and illustrators have benefited from visual features of non-Islamic arts for creating Islamic Symbolic Icons? The results of this study show the artists have benefited of different methods in drawing the Icons of Imams and holy persons, from which the trend to a kind of Symbolism in drawing Icons continued through the history from past to the contemporary period. Moreover, the Symbolic approaches to the Icons of saints and sacred persons that have been illustrated through the history of Persian paintings and miniatures have also affected the contemporary illustrators. This finding proved the assumption of the author that the Symbolic approach to the Icons of saints in Illustrations has had a significant impact on the child and adolescent’ s mind to focus on characteristics and surrealistic features of holy saints. Finally, this approach of Islamic Symbolism in painting the children’ s books has contributed to make the relationship between audience, subject and content of the stories, while associated with focusing of the audience mind on the principal role of the saints in the Quranic stories.

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AFSHARI, MORTEZA. (2020). Studying the Semiotic Role of Holy Icons in the Illustration of the Children and Teenagers’ Religious Story Books. NEGARINEH ISLAMIC ART, 7(19 ), 119-134. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/390478/en

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AFSHARI MORTEZA. Studying the Semiotic Role of Holy Icons in the Illustration of the Children and Teenagers’ Religious Story Books. NEGARINEH ISLAMIC ART[Internet]. 2020;7(19 ):119-134. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/390478/en

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MORTEZA AFSHARI, “Studying the Semiotic Role of Holy Icons in the Illustration of the Children and Teenagers’ Religious Story Books,” NEGARINEH ISLAMIC ART, vol. 7, no. 19 , pp. 119–134, 2020, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/390478/en

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