Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Architecture

Meeting: 2:00PM - 5:00PM R (23-AUG-2004 - 15-DEC-2004) 

Part of Term: Full Term

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Method of Instruction: Face to Face

Credit Hours: 3

 

Section Max Enrollment: 15

Section Enrolled: 2

Total Cross-list Max Enrollment: 500

Total Cross-list Enrolled: 8

Enrollment data as of: 16-MAY-2024 1:29AM

 

 

 

Description: WHAT IS ISLAMIC ART? ***** This seminar is a critical examination of key themes and issues in Islamic art. Based on readings that focus on specific examples of artistic and architectural production of major landmarks from the 7th to the 18th centuries our discussions will evolve aroud such questions as: What is Islamic about Islamic art? How and where did art, religion, and politics intersect? To what extent were art and architecture informed by religious principles, practices, and rituals? Can we speak of a distinctive visual language across the Muslim world? We will also explore the role of myth in the construction of cultural heritage, the development of writing into a major form of art called calligraphy, and questions of patornage and imperial ideology. We will revisit long-held assumptions about the nature of Islamic art as iconoclastic, and about the nature and scope of artistic exchange between the Muslim world and the Latin Christian West, Byzantium, and China. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Also offered as HART 325. ***** Instructor(s): Hamadeh Cross-list: HART 325.