Hermeneutics as an approach for the interpretation of hanging textiles design

Abstract EN

This study highlights the role of hermeneutics as a philosophical approach to understand and interpret hanging textiles design as a type of artworks.

Hermeneutics explains what is said in a strange language to others' awareness in what is known as the art of interpretation and perception which has developed from Schleiermacher to Gadamer including the elements of interpretation, understanding and dialogue.

These elements depend on overcoming the alienation of aesthetic consciousness and reducing the gap between recipient and artwork as each artwork is created to say something and express a conceptual idea.

Its interpretation depends on the wading in its parts and accepting its aesthetic truth and feeling.

Depending on hermeneutic circle which includes relation between the whole and the parts, it will be possible to understand the whole of a hanging textile design by getting closer to it to reveal the aesthetics of its details.

In this study, hermeneutic process or in other words hermeneutic in art is not just reading the meaning or evaluating the hanging textile design but rather it is an intuitive and transparent process which depends on entering the world of a hanging textile by considering the intellectual and unconscious processes through which the artwork is created.

Thus, without the hermeneutic thought in art, the hanging textile will fall into nothingness once the instant admiration of it is over.

Also, hanging textile will turn to be just a rag full of colors with a thousand barriers of vagueness and ambiguity separating the recipient from understanding and assimilating it.