The Letter 'Nun'

My gallery Comment Tag Order Photography*
View comments
No comments have been posted yet.
Add a comment
Please log in to add comments.
Enter your LACMA Collections username.
Enter the password that accompanies your username.
New to our collections website? Sign up to create an account and start saving your favorites. Please note that this account is not the same as the MyLACMA account you may have for ticketing and membership transactions.
Current tags
This item has not been tagged yet.
Please log in to add tags.
Enter your LACMA Collections username.
Enter the password that accompanies your username.
New to our collections website? Sign up to create an account and start saving your favorites. Please note that this account is not the same as the MyLACMA account you may have for ticketing and membership transactions.
* Nearly 20,000 images of artworks the museum believes to be in the public domain are available to download on this site. Other images may be protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights. By using any of these images you agree to LACMA's Terms of Use.

The Letter 'Nun'

Edition: 5/20

2007
Prints; lithographs
Lithograph
Sheet: 29 5/8 x 41 5/8 in. (75.25 x 105.73 cm); Plate: 24 x 35 1/2 in. (60.96 x 90.17 cm)
Purchased with funds provided by the Joan Palevsky Bequest (M.2008.5)
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

Arabic writing is a consistent and powerful theme in classical Islamic art. It also resonates with contemporary artists as both an art form and an expression of their cultural or religious identity....
Arabic writing is a consistent and powerful theme in classical Islamic art. It also resonates with contemporary artists as both an art form and an expression of their cultural or religious identity. In his work Ali Hassan focuses only on the single letter nun (N). The bold, black letter, dramatically offset against the light paper, recalls the black inscriptions on a white ground that characterize tenth-century Islamic ceramic wares.

More...