Art and polemic in Pakistan : cultural politics and tradition in contemporary miniature painting /
'This book tells a compelling story of the spectacular and somewhat unlikely revival of the magnificent medieval Mughal miniature painting genre in contemporary Pakistan and it subsequent success in the global art world. It deftly circumvents the prevailing stereotypes of upheaval, violence and...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Tauris Academic Studies,
[2010], ©2010
London ; New York : Tauris Academic Studies ; Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 London ; New York : c2010 London ; New York : ©2010 London ; New York, NY : New York, NY : 2010 London ; New York : [2010] |
| Series: | International library of cultural studies
International library of cultural studies 13 International library of cultural studies |
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Table of Contents:
- Conclusions. Tradition and identity ; Class and gender ; Political outlook ; Aesthetic issues ; Market and globalisation ; Performative subversion?
- Introduction : miniature manoeuvres. Performative knowledge ; Global flows and the agency of artworks ; Performative reading
- Social, political and historical formations relating to miniature practice. Tradition and identity ; Gender and patriarchy ; Militancy and fundamentalism ; Economics and globalisation ; Everyday life ; Mohammed Imran Qureshi ; Aisha Khalid
- Miniature practice. The miniature department ; Teachers and training ; Zahoor-ul-Akhlaq ; The present ustad : Bashir Ahmed ; Training ; Image and text ; Drawing exercises ; Wasli preparation ; Copying ; Pigments ; Brush work ; Time and theory ; Group X ; Group O ; Nusra Latif Qureshi ; Saira Wasim
- Imagining or inventing the tradition of miniature painting?. Patronage and patriarchal attitudes ; Tradition, orientalism and nationalism ; Discursive links ; The traditional art course ; The language debate ; Reflections ; Khadim Ali ; Hamra Abbas
- Miniature practice and aesthetics : social and visual, local and global. Four points of view ; Western art history and its shifts ; The post-colonial context ; Hybrid pedagogies, social aesthetics and constructed communities ; Indigenous aesthetics ; The Karkhana Project ; Phenomenology and corporeal aesthetics ; Sensorial or detached viewing ; Sacred and secular, popular and elitist ; Popular culture and the practice ; Audience and attitudes towards aesthetics ; Reflections ; Ahsan Jamal ; Ayesha Durrani
- Workshop and studio production. The Lahore workshop/school ; Workshops in India ; Trading miniatures ; Contrasts between workshop and studio production ; Hasnat Mehmood
- The global "art-world". Discursive formations ; Diffusion ; Craftmanship as a valorised attribute ; Ethnicity as a market value ; Gender and globalisation ; Global reception ; Local reception ; Market and art-world pressures ; Private, state and corporate patronage ; Reflections
- Conclusions. Tradition and identity ; Class and gender ; Political outlook ; Aesthetic issues ; Market and globalisation ; Performative subversion?
- Introduction : miniature manoeuvres. Performative knowledge ; Global flows and the agency of artworks ; Performative reading
- Social, political and historical formations relating to miniature practice. Tradition and identity ; Gender and patriarchy ; Militancy and fundamentalism ; Economics and globalisation ; Everyday life ; Mohammed Imran Qureshi ; Aisha Khalid
- Miniature practice. The miniature department ; Teachers and training ; Zahoor-ul-Akhlaq ; The present ustad : Bashir Ahmed ; Training ; Image and text ; Drawing exercises ; Wasli preparation ; Copying ; Pigments ; Brush work ; Time and theory ; Group X ; Group O ; Nusra Latif Qureshi ; Saira Wasim
- Imagining or inventing the tradition of miniature painting?. Patronage and patriarchal attitudes ; Tradition, orientalism and nationalism ; Discursive links ; The traditional art course ; The language debate ; Reflections ; Khadim Ali ; Hamra Abbas
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- Miniature practice and aesthetics : social and visual, local and global. Four points of view ; Western art history and its shifts ; The post-colonial context ; Hybrid pedagogies, social aesthetics and constructed communities ; Indigenous aesthetics ; The Karkhana Project ; Phenomenology and corporeal aesthetics ; Sensorial or detached viewing ; Sacred and secular, popular and elitist ; Popular culture and the practice ; Audience and attitudes towards aesthetics ; Reflections ; Ahsan Jamal ; Ayesha Durrani
- Workshop and studio production. The Lahore workshop/school ; Workshops in India ; Trading miniatures ; Contrasts between workshop and studio production ; Hasnat Mehmood
- The global "art-world". Discursive formations ; Diffusion ; Craftmanship as a valorised attribute ; Ethnicity as a market value ; Gender and globalisation ; Global reception ; Local reception ; Market and art-world pressures ; Private, state and corporate patronage ; Reflections
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- Performative knowledge
- Global flows and the agency of artworks
- Performative reading
- Tradition and identity
- Gender and patriarchy
- Militancy and fundamentalism
- Economics and globalisation
- Everyday life
- Cameo 1. Mohammed Imran Qureshi
- Cameo 2. Aisha Khalid
- miniature department
- Teachers and training
- Zahoor-ul-Akhlaq
- present ustad: Bashir Ahmed
- Training
- Image and text
- Drawing exercises
- Wasli preparation
- Copying
- Pigments
- Brush work
- Time and theory
- Group X
- Experimental techniques
- Group O
- Inter-group tensions
- Miniature department exhibition
- Reflections
- Cameo 3. Nusra Latif Qureshi
- Cameo 4. Saira Wasim
- Patronage and patriarchal attitudes
- Tradition, orientalism and nationalism
- Discursive links
- traditional art course
- language debate
- Reflections
- Cameo 5. Khadim Ali
- Cameo 6. Hamra Abbas
- Four points of view
- Western art history and its shifts
- post-colonial context
- Hybrid pedagogies, social aesthetics and constructed communities
- Indigenous aesthetics
- Karkhana Project
- Phenomenology and corporeal aesthetics
- Sensorial or detached viewing
- Sacred and secular, popular and elitist
- Popular culture and the practice
- Audience and attitudes towards aesthetics
- Reflections
- Cameo 7. Ahsan Jamal
- Cameo 8. Ayesha Durrani
- Lahore workshop/school
- Workshops in India
- Trading miniatures
- Contrasts between workshop and studio production
- Cameo 9. Hasnat Mehmood
- Discursive formations
- Diffusion
- Craftmanship as a valorised attribute
- Ethnicity as a market value
- Gender and globalisation
- Global reception
- Local reception
- Market and art-world pressures
- Private, state and corporate patronage
- Reflections
- Tradition and identity
- Class and gender
- Political outlook
- Aesthetic issues
- Market and globalisation
- Performative subversion?
- Social Political and Historical Formation Relating to the Miniature Practice
- The Miniature Practice
- Imagining or Inventing the Tradition of Miniature Painting?
- Aesthetics: Social and Visual, Local and Global
- Workshop and Studio Production
- The Global Art World