بازخوانی تحلیلی «هنر سنتی» از دیدگاه شوآن

برخی از پژوهشگران سده‌ی اخیر، تعریف خاصی از مفهوم «سنت» ارائه داده و به سنت‌گرایان مشهور شده‌اند. دغدغه‌ی اساسی آنان را می‌توان احیای امر سنت در جوامع امروزین دانست. تمدن سنتی، مطلوب آنان است و به دنبال سنتی نمودن همه‌ی امور و از جمله‌ هنر می‌باشند. اما مفهوم «هنر سنتی» مانند دیگر مواردی که به وصف سنتی متصف گشته‌اند، چندان واضح و دقیق به نظر نمی‌رسد. این مسئله باعث شده تا روشن نمودن چیستی و ویژگی‌های هنر سنتی، همواره از موضوعات بحث‌برانگیز باشد. فریتیوف شوآن به عنوان یکی از چهره‌های شاخص جریان سنت‌گرایی، مدعیات زیادی را در این زمینه مطرح کرده است. هدف این پژوهش، تدقیق نظریات وی درباره‌ی هنر سنتی است. یکی از راه‌های تدقیق مسائل فلسفی، ایضاح مفاهیم به کمک ارائه‌ی شروط لازم و کافی است که در فلسفه‌ی هنر معاصر نیز بسیار مورد استفاده قرار گرفته است. پژوهش حاضر که با روش توصیفی-تحلیلی صورت پذیرفته می‌کوشد تا با مراجعه به آثار شوآن، شروط لازم و کافیِ قرار گرفتن یک اثر هنری مفروض تحت مقوله‌ی «هنر سنتی» را معرفی نماید. نتایج پژوهش پس از استخراج همه‌ی شروط محتمل از میان آراء و نظرات شوآن، سه روایت محتمل را به عنوان تعریف هنر سنتی ارائه داده و در پایان نشان می‌دهد که می‌توان سه شرط «بیان رمزی از امور معقول»، «کاربردی بودن» و «تطابق فرم، مواد اولیه و رمزپردازی با قواعد هنر سنتی» را به عنوان شروط لازم و روی‌هم‌رفته به عنوان شرط کافی «سنتی بودن» یک اثر هنری از دیدگاه شوآن در نظر گرفت.

on schuon's traditional art: an analytical review

some scholars of the last century have offered a specific definition of tradition and have become known as traditionalists. their main concern is the revival of the tradition in today's societies. traditional civilization is vital to them, and they seek to traditionalize all things, including art. but the concept of traditional art does not seem obvious and precise, like in other cases described as traditional. this issue has made it always controversial to clarify the nature and characteristics of traditional art. frithjof schuon, as one of the leading figures of the traditionalist movement, has made many claims in this regard. the purpose of this paper is to restructure his views on traditional art. achieving a definition of traditional art helps us first distinguish a traditional artwork from another. second, the artist can use this definition to create traditional artworks.one of the ways to investigate philosophical issues is to clarify concepts by providing the necessary and sufficient conditions. this method has been widely used in the contemporary philosophy of art. the present study, which uses the descriptive-analytical method, tries to introduce the necessary and sufficient conditions for a supposed work of art to be placed under the traditional art category by referring to schuon's works. to achieve this, we first extract the features of traditional art from schuon's point of view as much as possible. once we identify these characteristics, we decide which one we can choose as necessary or sufficient for defining traditional art.from schuon's point of view, the main feature of traditional art is that the artwork is, in fact, an expression of the intellectual realities of the higher worlds (directly or indirectly). in his view, traditional artwork, like sacred texts, originates from revelation and indicates indescribable spiritual matters. not only does he consider the origin of traditional art to be divine, but he also considers the form of the works to correspond to the same divine truths. symbolism is a feature that exists in both pure nature and sacred art. traditional artwork is a symbolic expression of transcendent truths. he argues that symbolic art is inherently related to intellectual reasoning. there is a symbolic relationship between rational intuition and perceptual forms.another characteristic that schuon constantly points out is that traditional artwork is not a product of the artist's mind, and therefore innovation has no meaning in it. he believes that all forms, even insignificant ones, can only be considered human creation secondarily. they come firstly from the same superhuman source that is the source of all traditions. the following characteristic of traditional art is its functionality. this feature means that art is never created solely for pleasure and artistic aspects in a traditional civilization. such a view is clearly in contrast with the art for art's sake theory, and schuon has repeatedly criticized this theory in his work, calling it even the most foolish and deviant idea.