2018 - 2019

0821-1341-01
  Introduction to the Arts of Islamic People Ii - the Splendour                                        
FACULTY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS
Lev Arie KapitaikinMexico - Arts115Sun1400-1600 Sem  2
 
 
University credit hours:  2.0

Course description

The introductory course offers a general survey of major artworks, basic concepts and terms in the arts of Islamic people and lands – Arabs, Persians, and Turks. It focuses on architecture, objects, calligraphy and ornament, teaching the ways of looking at Islamic artworks and interpreting their subtler meanings. Part II: The Splendour, explores Islamic architecture, art and painting in their periods of splendor during the later Middle Ages, from the rise of the Turkish dynasties in the eleventh century until the nineteenth century. Amongst other artwork, we shall be dealing with the evolution of Islamic architecture and the figurative image in Persian and Indian-Mughal painting.

 

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