#  HAA 128N - Islamic Ornament: Aesthetics of Abstraction and Perception  

 





 Semester:   Spring 

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 Year offered:  2024 

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 Link: [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 

 

 

 

 Gulru Necipoglu

 Critically explores the historiography and interpretations of Islamic ornament. Themes include ornamentality and abstraction, theories of perception, orientalist discourses on the so-called "arabesque," resonances of non-figural abstraction with modernism and postmodern aesthetics.



 

 



 

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