Semester:
Spring
Offered:
2020
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.