HAA 128N: Islamic Ornamentality, Abstraction, and Theories of Perception

Semester: Fall

Year offered: 2025

Link: Course Website

Instructor: Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar

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.