Art
historian (1 January 1964, Trabzon). He graduated from Istanbul University,
Faculty of
Literature and Mimar Sinan University, Social Sciences Institute. He completed
his postgraduate education at İstanbul University, Department of Archeology and
Art History and received his PhD at Mimar Sinan University, Social Sciences
Institution in the Turkish and Islamic Arts Program (1992). He became a
researcher at Mimar Sinan University, Social Sciences Institution in 1993 and
an academician at Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of
Turkish and Islamic Arts in 1993. He became an associate professor at Mimar
Sinan University, Faculty of Literature. He is still an academician at the same
university.
WORKS:
Anadolu
Selçukluların Taş Tezyinatında Orta Asya ile Bağlantılar (Connections
Between the Stone Decorations of the Anatolian Seljuks and Central Asia, 1988),
Türk Resim Sanatında Hayvan Sembolizmi (Animal Symbolism in Turkish
Painting, 1992), Türk Şamanizminde Biçim Değiştirme Olayı ve Türk Sanatı ile
Bağlantısı Üzerine Birkaç Söz (The Metamorphosis in Turkish Shamanism and A
Few Words on Its Relation to Turkish Art, 1987), Padişah Askılarının Manası
(The Meaning of Sultan Motifs, 1988), Akkışlar / Pamucak Türkmen Obası ve
Bazı Görüşler (Akkısh / Pamucak Turkmen Tribe and Some Thoughts, 1989), Leningrad
Hermitage Müzesi ve Türk Sanatı (Leningrad Hermitage Museum and Turkish
Art, 1990), Kültigin’in Baş Heykelinin İkonografik Bakımdan Tahlili (The
Analysis of the Head Statue of Kültigin in Relation to Iconography, 1991), Batılılaşma
Dönemi İstanbul Cami Minaresinde Taçkapılar (Crested Doors at İstanbul
Mosque Minarets in the Westernization Period 1993), Türk Sanatında Görülen
Maymun Figürlerinin Sembolizmi (The Symbolism of Monkey Figures Seen In
Turkish Art, 1994), Türk Sanatında
Balık Figürlerinin Sembolizmi (The Symbolism of Fish Figures in Turkish
Art, 1995), Çağdaş Türkmenistan Sanatının Öncülerinden Kılıçmurad Yarmadoğlu
(One of The Pioneers of Modern Turkmenistan Art , 1996), Eski Merv’de
Kız-bibi Türbesi (Girl-Aunt Tomb in Old Merv, 1997), Türk Sanatında
Hayvan Sembolizmi (Animal Symbolism in Turkish Art, 1995), Erken Devir
Türk Sanatının ABC’si (The ABC’s of Early Turkish Art, 1997).
