@article{2015,title={CULTURAL IDENTITY TRACES OF TURKISH SCULPTURE ART IN TURKISH SPOKEN GEOGRAPHY},abstractNode={In Turkey, the history of sculpture in the Western sense, as in Europe and has a long history of Christian culture is not. But a hundred-year history of sculpture in Turkey comprises the process. However, centuries of Turkish culture based on the sculpture also should be noted that the examples. Instead of depicting human nature, ornament and decoration mainly on monumental sculptures are examples. Tomb, public fountains, mansions, palaces and stone - carving wood carving carries an important example of. Structures belonging to the Seljuk and Ottoman periods reliefs; geometric or inspired by plants, which include depictions of animal sculptures, Baroque fountains, statues bearing the impact of the values that are the wealth of art. In the Western sense of the development of painting and sculpture in 1883, which is the country's first school of fine arts Industry began with the establishment of School of Fine Arts. In 1923, with the establishment of the secular Republic of Turkey in all fields of innovation, modernization, development and reform movements in the arts has led to the opening. Of Turkish culture in the development of contemporary Turkish sculpture seem to have an important place. In this study we examined the formation of the Turkish art of sculpture contemporary sculpture in the development process by giving examples from the readings will be placed on cultural traces.},author={Önder YAĞMUR},year={2015},journal={The Journal of Social Sciences}}