2019 - 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
0821-1331 | Introduction to the Arts of Islamic People I: the Beginning | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The introductory course offers a general survey of major artworks, concepts and terms in the arts of Islamic people and lands – Arabs, Persians, and Turks. It focuses on figural arts, architecture, objects, calligraphy and ornament, introducing students to the ways of looking at Islamic artworks and interpreting their subtler meanings. Part I – The Beginning: explores the beginnings of Islamic art and its formation of distinct visual language, on the background of neighboring visual traditions, the Persian- Sasanian, the Central-Asian, and the Byzantine. The timespan covers the early Middle Ages from the rise of Islam in the seventh century, through the great Caliphates of the Umayyads, and the Abbasids until about 1000 C.E.