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

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.