"Stylish lettering has always been of great importance within the graffiti and street art movements. Over the last 25 years many artists have pushed the practice into a powerful stylized calligraphy. The Art of Writing Your name follows the arc of this movement from its earliest…
Uygun iklim ve coğrafi şartlarının da etkisiyle asırlardır yerleşim alanı olarak tercih edilen Biga, Güney Marmara'da bulunup Anadolu ile Trakya arasında bir köprü vazifesi görmüştür. Çanakkale'nin Biga İlçesi-Gümüşçay Belediyesi sınırları içinde bulunan Nasuh Çelebi Câmii Hazir…
The subject-matter of this Dissertation outlines a new methodology in approaching literature written in French in North Africa. It purports to do away with reductionism. In the Introduction we state the main characteristic of this literature, its un-belonging to one tradition as…
This project analizes the use of the Arabic script in Mona Hatoum's Measures of Distance (1988) and Kutlugˇ Ataman's Animated Words (2003) to understand the variety of interpretations made possible to audiences familiar and unfamiliar to Arabic. These artists' roles as Middle Ea…
Calligraphy in the Arabic language is an ancient form of communication and a method of documenting history. The Arabic script started in a very simple form with characters similar to each other. However, through the years, many developments have occurred within this form of comm…
This dissertation is the first monographic study of the monk-calligrapher Yishan Yining (1247-1317), who was sent to Japan in 1299 as an imperial envoy by Emperor Chengzong (Temur, 1265-1307. r. 1294-1307), and achieved unprecedented success there. Through careful visual analysi…
This paper discusses the author's creative practice as it relates to the evolutionary origins of the unique aspects of human consciousness and their implication throughout time. A methodological approach that models cognitive systems that have developed based on these implicatio…
Hüsn-i hat sanatımızın önemli yazı çeşitlerinden bir tanesi olan Ta'lîk yazı, İran'da doğup gelişmiştir. Fatih Sultan Mehmed devri ile Osmanlı'ya gelen yazı estetik olgularıyla büyük ilgi görmüş ve usta hattatlar eliyle kendi estetik ve sanat anlayışımız ile yorumlanarak XVIII. …
Tattoos and graffiti immediately bring to mind contemporary urban life and its inhabitants. But in fact, both practices date back much further than is generally thought-even by scholars. Drawing on a previously unavailable archive, Juliet Fleming reveals the unknown and disregar…