فائض المعنى في النحت العراقي المعاصر

Abstract EN

The current research is concerned with the study of the meaning and its essence in contemporary sculpture by addressing the problem of the modes of its flow and multiplicity of its implications and the flow of its surplus due to the transformations of the artistic form and the variety of its methods in addition to the accompanying new and different strategies in circulation and the aesthetic reception.

In order to achieve this task, models of the contemporary Iraqi sculpture, which are compatible in their forms and raw materials with the concept of the studied phenomenon, have been used.

Therefore the topics of the research have been divided into four axes.

The first axis included an introduction to the subject which implicitly contained the problem of the research, its importance and purpose represented by highlighting the position of meaning surplus and mechanisms to achieve that in contemporary Iraqi sculpture.

The second axis included the theoretical framework, which touched on the review of the concept of meaning and methods of its formation in addition to the most important intellectual references affecting the artistic process.

The third axis focused on the applied procedures represented by the ways of determining the research community, sample model, methodology and the tool used in the analysis of the samples.

The fourth and final axis shows the results of the study and the most important of which is that the meaning surplus is related to the imaginary embodiment of the structure of the form, and this is what happens when the sculptural work leaves realism simulation to depend on new methods such as abstraction and reduction, and investing the concept of micro and macro in the appearance of the sculptural output.