This study was designed to determine the cultural, environmental, and political/military factors which influence the visual imagery drawn by Iraqi children. Additional factors examined were traditional and Western influences, gender, location, and socioeconomic levels. The subjects were 180 children of different socioeconomic levels in urban and rural (suburban) public elementary schools in Baghdad. It was hypothesized that there would be no significant differences in drawings of male and female children, those from urban and rural locations, and those from low-, middle-, and high-income levels regarding choice of topic (culture, environment, political/military themes), and source of influence (traditional or Western). / Significant differences were found between male and female children's drawings in both urban and rural areas. Females depicted environmental themes more often than did the males while males drew political and war images more often than did females. In general, children drew traditional themes more than Western themes. Western influences dominated the drawings of children from urban areas while traditional images appeared most often in the drawings of rural children. High-income children were more concerned with Western and political/military themes than were children from middle- and low-income backgrounds. However, traditional themes were more dominant among low-income children than middle-income children. Both male and female children depicted their own sex in their drawings. / This study offers significant findings within the sphere of Arabic culture and cross-cultural studies. The findings also represent a case study of a nation that has undergone tremendous political, cultural, social, and economic changes in a relatively short period of time. It also adds a new dimension which has only limited representation in the literature--the element of political-military and war images--showing their influence to be as significant as those of culture and environment. Awareness of these factors should provide art educators with a better understanding of visual images children choose to draw. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-04, Section: A, page: 0856. / Major Professor: Jessie Lovano-Kerr. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1989.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77994 |
| Contributors | Al-Allaq, Talib Ali., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 241 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
Page generated in 0.0017 seconds