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A timely reexamination of Sikander’s artistic development through her post-9/11 work
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Shahzia Sikander
Extraordinary Realities
Pioneering Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander is one of the most influential artists working today. Sikander is widely celebrated for expanding and subverting miniature painting to explore gender roles and sexuality, cultural identity, racial narratives, and colonial and postcolonial histories.
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This lively volume presents her powerful early work, created between 1987 and 2003, from South Asian, West Asian, and Western perspectives, illuminating new understandings for a wide audience. Charting her early development as an artist in Lahore and the United States, the book reclaims her critical role in bringing miniature painting into dialogue with contemporary art, especially in Pakistan, international art discourse of the 1990s, and contemporary global practices and debates.
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The Pakistani artist Shahzia Sikander helped create a whole new genre of painting.
artnet
The catalogue explores the efforts by the Pakistani-American artist to bring the aesthetic of centuries-old Indo-Persian manuscripts into dialogue with contemporary art and Western art history.
The Wall Street Journal
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Shahzia Sikander unites traditional approaches with contemporary concerns to create an iconography of her own.
Apollo - The International Arts Magazine
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Ed. Sadia Abbas, Jan Howard
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154 pages, 90 colour illustrations
21.6 × 26.7 cm, flexicover
21.6 × 26.7 cm, flexicover
ISBN: 978-3-7774-3559-6
Events
Providence
| RISD Museum
New York
| The Morgan Library & Museum
Keywords
Painting, contemporary art, 21st century
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