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Modern art in Pakistan : history, tradition, place / Simone Wille.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Visual & media historiesNew Delhi : Routledge, 2015Description: xiv, 128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1138821098
  • 9781138821095 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.5491 WIL  23 007048
LOC classification:
  • N7310.7 .W55 2015
Contents:
Preface / by Monica Juneja -- Introduction: a new sense of place in modern Pakistani art -- Shakir Ali (1916-1975) -- Zahoor ul Akhlaq (1941-1999): the idea of space as an abstract system -- The legacy of Pakistan's modernism in contemporary art -- Conclusion -- Afterword / by Iftikhar Dadi.
Summary: "Modern Art in Pakistan examines interaction of space, tradition, and history to analyse artistic production in Pakistan from the 1950s to recent times. It traces the evolution of modernism in Pakistan and frames it in a global context in the aftermath of Partition. A masterful insight into South Asian art, this book will interest researchers, scholars, and students of South Asian art and art history, and Pakistan in particular. Further it will be useful to those engaged in the fields of Islamic studies, museum studies, and modern South Asian history."
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Includes bibliographical references (unnumbered page 117-page 122) and index.

Preface / by Monica Juneja -- Introduction: a new sense of place in modern Pakistani art -- Shakir Ali (1916-1975) -- Zahoor ul Akhlaq (1941-1999): the idea of space as an abstract system -- The legacy of Pakistan's modernism in contemporary art -- Conclusion -- Afterword / by Iftikhar Dadi.

"Modern Art in Pakistan examines interaction of space, tradition, and history to analyse artistic production in Pakistan from the 1950s to recent times. It traces the evolution of modernism in Pakistan and frames it in a global context in the aftermath of Partition. A masterful insight into South Asian art, this book will interest researchers, scholars, and students of South Asian art and art history, and Pakistan in particular. Further it will be useful to those engaged in the fields of Islamic studies, museum studies, and modern South Asian history."

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