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| Photographed by Shah Zaman Baloch |
Work of Shah Zaman Baloch can be seen here, he is a film maker and a photographer. Especially, the film that he made on kite flying in Lahore, Pakistan is fantastic. It is called "Kati Patang" or a Stray Kite. You can learn about Pakistan through his work too.
There is one more name from Pakistan in Miniature Paintings and it is Imran Qureshi (brother of Faisal Qureshi of Doctor and Billa fame), he has been selected as the Artist of Year 2013 by Duetsche Bank.
You can see his work HERE and don't miss out: Blessings Upon the Land.
The study by Iftikhar Dadi, Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia, was long overdue. Pakistani artists claim a cosmopolitan genealogy which encompasses Indo-Persian sources, Mughal glory, orientalist Islamic art, calligraphic modernism and feminist resistance. Their ambivalence towards nationalism, Dadi argues, was due to the political reality of a nation-state formation which: 'failed to supply an adequate aspirational horizon for numerous South Asian Muslim intellectuals before and after 1947'. The lack of an 'avant-garde' is attributed to the absence of academic structures to deconstruct and its 'temporary deferral' is perceived as a characteristic of historical trauma. …
Source:Art Monthly Newsletter
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