The Origins and Evolution of Contemporary Miniature Painting in Pakistan

Marcella Sirhandi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

133 Seiten

2024 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-0857-2 (ISBN)

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In 1982, Bashir Ahmad created the first curriculum in the world for a degree course in Indo-Persian miniature painting. When the British abandoned South Asia in 1947, artists lost royal patronage. Two remaining hereditary court painters left India and accepted teaching posts at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan. Ahmad—the only student dedicated to the serious study of this art form—underwent a challenging eight-year apprenticeship with two ustads (teachers). Ahmad rescued and perfected age-old techniques verging on the cusp of extinction. He introduced contemporary themes and encouraged his students to innovate as well. In addition to biographies of Ahmad and his two ustads, this book details his apprenticeship and traces the ongoing evolution of the craft by his students, including Shahzia Sikander, Imran Qureshi, Saira Wasim, Wasim Ahmad and Nusra Latif-Qureshi. Ahmad's transformation of the miniatures, as well as student assignments, are included as color illustrations.

Marcella Sirhandi is an art historian whose doctoral thesis on Abdur Rahman Chughtai—the National Artist of Pakistan—reflects her focus on contemporary South Asian art history. Research awards from Fulbright, the American Institute of Pakistan Studies and the American Institute of Indian Studies supported her publications that feature the artists Mohan Samant, Antonio Xavier Trindade, Jamini Roy, and Lubna Agha and surveys including South Asian Modern Masters, Modern Indian Works on Paper and Royal Nepal Through the Lens of R.G. Matzene. Sirhandi retired as Professor Emerita from Oklahoma State University, USA, in 2010, and continues to publish and present new research at national and international conferences. She participates as a thesis reader for American and Pakistani universities and is the Asian art consultant for Whittaker Fine Arts Appraisals in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.9.2024
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
ISBN-10	1-0364-0857-4 / 1036408574
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-0857-2 / 9781036408572
Zustand	Neuware