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"MLA - 450. 704 Plato, Geometry, and Islamic Art Carol Bier

MLA: "450. 704 Plato, Geometry, and Islamic Art
Carol Bier (more...)
TH 6:15 PM - 8:30 PM
woow $1570

Approaching the study of art through the figural tradition privileges the arts of Western Europe, India, and China. Less well known to many of us are arts of the Islamic world. Using an experimental approach that combines literary criticism and philosophy with art history and an exploration of geometry, students will engage in various two-dimensional constructions to understand experientially aspects of Islamic art that inform a beauty of form, pattern, and structure. Readings will include sections from Plato’s Timaeus, commentaries by Aristotle and several Neoplatonist writers, as well as philosophical writings by later Arab and Persian authors ""