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Research Faculty Current Endeavors
15. Word and Image The dialectic between pictorial and linguistic signs in the history of culture is a subject of great interest to Nasser Rabbat. Rabbat has published extensively on the relationship between language and imagery in medieval Islamic cultures. He has articles on the etymology of several architectural terms and on the dominance of words in articulating medieval Islamic art. He has devoted his lectures at the Institut du monde arabe (IMA) in 2003, which came out as a book in 2004, to the interplay of word and image in early Islamic art and architecture. Caroline Jones has interrogated the role of meaningless signs in Asian contemporary art, particularly in her essay for UNESCO on the work of Xu Bing and Wenda Gu. A recent course on Islamic Calligraphy was taught by Irvin Schick, an independent researcher and published author on the subject.
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