HAA 228N - Islamic Ornament: Aesthetics of Abstraction and Theories of Perception | Department of History of Art and Architecture

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2020

Link: Course Website

Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar

Thursday, 12:00pm 2:45pm

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.