“The Concept of Beauty from Plotinus to St. Augustine and Ghazzali, and Art of Abstraction in Medieval Eastern Mediterranean”

2008-01-31
Peker, Ali Uzay
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This paper is going to venture the established notion of “Islamic aesthetics” understood as a non-historical and distinct cultural entity. Scholars of Islamic aesthetics occasionallyrefer to Greek art theory as a precursor but there has been no stimulating attempt todemonstrate the continuity from ancient to medieval art theory in eastern Mediterranean.
Eastern Mediterranean
https://www.sanart.org.tr/en/congresses/ica/
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/71337
XVII. Congress of Aesthetics: Aesthetics Bridging Cultures, 9 - 13 Temmuz 2007
Department of Architecture, Conference / Seminar

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A. U. Peker, ““The Concept of Beauty from Plotinus to St. Augustine and Ghazzali, and Art of Abstraction in Medieval Eastern Mediterranean”,” presented at the XVII. Congress of Aesthetics: Aesthetics Bridging Cultures, 9 - 13 Temmuz 2007, Ankara, Türkiye, 2008, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.sanart.org.tr/en/congresses/ica/.
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