University of Waterloo PhD thesis | Journal of the American Oriental Society |
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The aim, however, is never merely to ornament, but rather to transfigure |
Much of the art of Islam, whether in architecture, ceramics, textiles or books, is the art of decoration — which is to say, of transformation | |
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Islamic Patterns : an analytical and cosmological approach |
An Optical Artist: Exploring Patterns and Symmetry | |
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