| Abstrakt: |
The article refers to a transnationalist modernist aesthetic concept and focuses on a book-length essay, "Türklerde Yazi Sanati" or "Turkish Script Arts" by critic Ismayil Hakki Baltacioğlu. The author's views on the dramatized form of surrealism in the essay, a connection between Turkish and Western European literary histories, and the essay's subtitle which is "socio-psychological essay on the graphology and the aesthetics of Turkish script arts" are discussed. The contrasting aspects of Turkish Islamic writing, the geometric form of Latin letters, and the Arabo-Persian lettering in the Ottoman Turkish language are noted. The surrealist movement, the avant-garde art scene in the early 1930s, and the rationalizing process of modernity are discussed. |
