TITUS BURCKHARDT: İSLAM SANATINA AŞK(IN)CI BİR BAKIŞ
TITUS BURCKHARDT: A TRANSCENDENTAL VIEW ON ISLAMIC ART

Summary/Abstract: Titus Burckhardt, who was born in Florance in 1908, was a German Swiss art historian and academician. As a member of a patrician family of Basle, he took part in cultural and art circles. He was interested in sculpter and painting in early ages because of being the son of a sculptor father and an artist mother. He went to Morocco in his twenties to make researches on eastern culture and arts and lived there for a long time. Eventually as a result of that experience, he converted into Muslim. He tried to set forth the relationship between the revelation and the ancient arts. Of course, not only did he give importance to the Eastern and Islamic arts, but also the traditional Western arts and he placed the concept of sacred art at the center of his works. He intended to pursue the sacred and transcendent one in his works and he had a holistic point of view. Burckhardt searching the sacred one among the traditionalists was unanimous with René Guenon, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and Frithjof Schuon who were the co-founders of Traditionalist School. Emphasizing the universal and transcendental sides of arts, he also defended that all the traditional arts conveyed the message of the sacred. This article will discuss how Titus Burckhardt held and explained the sacred art espacially the Islamic art in a transcendental way.

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