Calligraphy, or beautiful writing, has the qualities of abstract line at the same time that it signifies words. Calligraphy is the most privileged form of decoration in Islamic art. Art historian Oleg Grabar writes of ornament in The Mediation of Ornament – those signs that seem to mean nothing in themselves – that it has […]
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