Shahzia Sikander : extraordinary realities / edited by Sadia Abbas and Jan Howard ; contributions by Bashir Ahmad [and nine others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Munich : HIRMER, [2020]Copyright date: ♭2020Description: 152 pages (some folded) : color illustrations, portraits ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Contained works:
  • Sikander, Shahzia, 1969- Works. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Acknowledgments / John W. Smith and Sadia Abbas -- Not a breach but an expansion / Sadia Abbas -- History, narrative, and the female figure (as disruption) / Kishwar Rizvi -- A conversation at Bashir Ahmad's studio / Bashir Ahmad, Dennis Congdon, Shahzia Sikander, and Sadia Abbas -- Extracting her from my memory / Shahzia Sikander -- Unexpected juxtapositions / Jan Howard -- The urgency of imagination: A conversation with Rick Lowe, Julie Mehretu, and Shahzia Sikander -- Overlapping diasporas / Vasif Kortun interviews Shahzia Sikander -- Promiscuous intimacies: Embodiment, desire, and diasporic dislocation in the art of Shahzia Sikander / Gayatri Gopinath -- After the war / Faisal Devji -- Chronology.
Summary: 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 and other underrepresented narratives, and colonial and postcolonial histories. 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. Exhibition: RISD Museum, Providence RI, USA (02.10.2020 - 24.01.2021).
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Book Book Sonoma Academy Library 700.411 SIK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 922775
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Catalog of exhibitions held at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, RISD Museum, Providence, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in 2021 and 2022.

Includes bibliographical references.

Acknowledgments / John W. Smith and Sadia Abbas -- Not a breach but an expansion / Sadia Abbas -- History, narrative, and the female figure (as disruption) / Kishwar Rizvi -- A conversation at Bashir Ahmad's studio / Bashir Ahmad, Dennis Congdon, Shahzia Sikander, and Sadia Abbas -- Extracting her from my memory / Shahzia Sikander -- Unexpected juxtapositions / Jan Howard -- The urgency of imagination: A conversation with Rick Lowe, Julie Mehretu, and Shahzia Sikander -- Overlapping diasporas / Vasif Kortun interviews Shahzia Sikander -- Promiscuous intimacies: Embodiment, desire, and diasporic dislocation in the art of Shahzia Sikander / Gayatri Gopinath -- After the war / Faisal Devji -- Chronology.

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 and other underrepresented narratives, and colonial and postcolonial histories. 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. Exhibition: RISD Museum, Providence RI, USA (02.10.2020 - 24.01.2021).

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