AHIS BC 1001x Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Henri Pirenne, Arab Spring
30 Aug 2016
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East and west: introduction to the politics of writing the history of islamic art. Part 1 writing the history of the orient. Sacred space: jewish, christian, and muslim: religionazing the space. Geography: the orient, and in particular the holy land. Mostly are talking about areas that belong to classical land. Between the object of study and its image. By looking at these objects want to look at the image of this art. Monument we are looking at today is not divorced from the image that was made for it. Want to move beyond looking at monuments chronically and put them in a space between now and then. Ornament is the kind of image of what islamic art is. In the center of this map is jerusalem. The then in the now, the differentiating the unity of islam, enlarging the meaning of diversity. Rethinking categories: secular and sacred, architecture, sculpture and painting and the art of the object.
