Representations of alienation in the works of migrant potters

Abstract

The form of alienation in art is a state of intellectual displacement as a result of the artists’ connection to the cultural openness of society to result in performative creativity, and a vision for expressing the artistic sense and overseeing dysfunctional artistic trends that helped to gain diverse experiences due to direct or indirect mixing with other cultures, and this applies to the art of ceramics, which is distinguished In producing creative artistic works with renewed visual texts according to the type of alienation that each potter suffered from, especially the alienation of homelands, hence the importance of the current research; because it sheds light on the effects of alienation in contemporary Iraqi ceramic works, as it is an open text that bears multiple cultural and aesthetic interpretations, so the two researchers found it to be a problem worthy of research, as they posed the following question (representations of alienation in diaspora potter’s workers). The research included four chapters; the first chapter included the methodological framework. For the research, the research problem, importance, goals, limits, and terminology, while the second chapter included the theoretical framework for the research, which included two sections, the first entitled the first contemporary Iraqi potters, and the second, the aesthetic shift in contemporary Iraqi ceramics. The third chapter is determined by the research procedures and then the analysis of the samples, and the fourth chapter It includes results, conclusions, recommendations, proposals, and finally a list of sources and appendices.