Conceptual and Aesthetic Dimensions of Totem Forms in the African Arts

Abstract

      This research means studying (the conceptual and aesthetic dimensions of totem forms in African arts) and included four chapters, the first chapter dealt with the problem of research, the importance of research and its need for it and its goal of (identifying the conceptual and aesthetic dimensions of totem forms in African arts.) and its research limits (objective boundaries: totem is determined in African arts) and the temporal boundaries of (1875 to 1940 AD(.

Chapter 2 included two researches, the first of which included the study of the genesis of Totemic thought in African art conceptually and aesthetically, and the second article dealt with the sacred and man in primitive African peoples. The second chapter ended with the indicators concluded by the researchers. The third chapter includes the research procedures of the research community, which amounted to (3) As an artistic model and research curriculum، chapter three ended with the analysis of the research sample. While chapter 4 specialized in the results of the research and its conclusions and one of the most important results (to temism as a concept and human behavior constitutes a natural reaction to the pressures and environmental influences in which the population of African societies live, and then took root in his mind and became cognitive effectiveness and then turned into a beautiful artistic language (1, 2,3), the African artist took from his productions an aesthetic means of expressing the instability of real ideologies and living values to transform the values and habits of the ancestors to gain blessing and exorcism as in the sample. (1, 2, 3) The most important conclusions (the hidden totem form in the masks, with its conceptual and aesthetic dimensions، exceeded the space of individual expression in subjective situations، extending and expanding, and became a method of conceptual and aesthetic expression of the Totem form of the African artist who believes in and expresses occult forces.) and then ended up discussing the recommendations and proposals.