What is Islamic Art

Al-Kindi supports Euclid and Ptolemy’s theory of visual extramission: that the eye emits rays that fall on objects to sense the ...

hypothetically exit the realm of matter, becoming open to higher forms of knowledge and, ultimately, theology. Following the int ...

The Brethren then describe the role of apprenticeship in geometric arts, particularly surveying. Although theyfirst enumerate th ...

Associating these words with the elevation promised in the Quran, they transform pragmatic knowledge acquired from the ancients ...

Godasalwayselsewherefromtheperceiving subject, inward mimesis enables geometry to make God present in the perceiving soul. The r ...

the more one ponders, the more its beauties register, whereas the modern song is like a new fabric that appears atfirst, but the ...

versification suggests that geometry may have a representational function informed by practices of conditioned reception not exp ...

Where Nizami and Jami had compared architecture to the cosmos through analogies of form, here the analogy expands to include sou ...

music and mathematics based on an absence of their discussion in theore- tical texts of the sixteenth century.^66 On the contrar ...

(such as that practiced in the modern analytical humanities) becomes secondary. Yet this self-signification remains distinct fro ...

is visible, then sight will sense of this and similar bodies their extension in length and breadth alone; it will not sense the ...

perspectival representation in Europe purports to solve. For him, the representation of a mathematical solid on a plane depends ...

would give the artist the social mandate to reveal a collective identity to his society. Although some of his admirers in the la ...

He further argues that the artist serves to funnel the unconscious spirit of society: The duty of the artist does not consist of ...

brotherhoods at the core of musical education persisted in private homes, where Halil learned from ney masters concurrently with ...

subject looks, he or she experiences a new center. Thus the subject is continually decentered within an infinity of possibilitie ...

She builds on this opposition by associating elaborately patterned surfaces with subjectivity:“Their infinitely extendable, non- ...

10 Perspectives on Perspective Since the early twentieth century, art-historical writings have imbued perspective with a foundat ...

became a means of parochially governing representation both literally and, more importantly, metaphorically. The assertion of a ...

Giannozzo Manetti (1396–1459), Brunelleschi established the need tofix the position of the viewing subject. On a small panel, he ...