Hanging fire : contemporary art from Pakistan /
Publication details: New York : Asia Society Museum ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, ©2009.Description: 159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 32 cmISBN:- 9780300154184
- 0300154186
- N7310.7 .H265 2009
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Whitecliffe Library General Shelves | General | N 7310 HAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0009622 |
Published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by the Asia Society Museum, Sept. 10-Jan. 3, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-157) and index.
Hanging fire : an introduction / Salima Hashmi -- Rustled silences : the past in Pakistan's present / Ayesha Jalal -- Art in Pakistan : the first decades / Iftikhar Dadi -- Conflicts and resolution in the narrative / Naazish Ata-Ullah -- The world changes and it doesn't : a note on Pakistani culture / Carla Petievich -- Exile at home : Pakistani art in the global age / Quddus Mirza -- Art and the other Pakistanis : (the ones that don't make the headlines) / Mohsin Hamid -- Artists.
"Accompanying the first U.S. museum exhibition devoted to contemporary art from Pakistan, this dynamic catalogue provides a groundbreaking look at recent and current trends in Pakistani art. Hanging Fire covers a fascinating range of subjects and media, from installation and video art to sculpture, drawing, and paintings in the contemporary miniature tradition. Essays by distinguished contributors from a variety of fields, including Salima Hashmi, Pakistani-American sociologist and historian Ayesha Jalal, and the celebrated novelist Mohsin Hamid, place contemporary Pakistani art in a cultural, historical, and artistic perspective." "The book's title, Hanging Fire, alludes to the contemporary economic, political, and social tensions - both local and global - from which these artists find their creative inspiration. It may also suggest to the viewer to delay judgment, particularly based on assumptions or preconceived notions about contemporary society and artistic expression in Pakistan today."--Jacket.