Arabic Script in Motion A Theory of Temporal Text-based Art /

• Main Author: Khajavi, M. Javad (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Arts.; Arabic language.; Ethnology-Middle East .; Arabic.; Middle Eastern Culture.

This book is a pioneering study of temporal typography and time-based calligraphic art written in the Arabic system of writing. Inspired by the innate qualities of Arabic script as well as certain practices in Islamic calligraphy and contemporary calligraphic art, the book devises five broad categor...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Kinetic Behaviors
• 3. Kinesthetic Behaviors
• 4. Plasmatic Behaviors
• 5. Transformative Behaviors
• 6. Meta-Transformative Behaviors
• 7. Conclusion.