#  HAA 228N - Islamic Ornament: Aesthetics of Abstraction and Theories of Perception 

 





 Semester:   Spring 

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 Year offered:  2020 

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

 

 

 

 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.



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Spring 2020 ](/class-term/spring-2020)
- [ graduate ](/class-type/graduate)