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What Comes to My Lips
Ambreen Butt; Contributions by Sara Raza, Quddus Mirza
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R777
Discovery Miles 7 770
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What Comes to My Lips is the first monograph on the artist Ambreen
Butt. Trained in the thousand-year tradition of Indo-Persian
miniature painting and contemporary Western art and theory, Butt's
studio practice circumvents history, tradition and contemporaneity,
creating a multifaceted project that explores civil liberties and
rights, mutual responsibilities and complex geopolitical
forces.Illuminated with images of the artist's paintings, collaged
works on paper and large-scale installations from the past three
decades, this in-depth book features essays by curator/writer Sara
Raza and artist/critic Quddus Mirza. Raza examines Butt's practice
through the thematic lens of the sciences of Islam's Golden Age
(7th-14th century), proposing a bridge that connects art, history
and cosmology. In his essay, Mirza places the conventions of the
artist's work in relation to longer historical narratives and
traditional gendered roles across the spectrums of time and
locality.An intimate archive of Butt's technically rich,
aesthetically delightful work, What Comes to My Lips invites the
reader to enter the symbolic landscape of Butt's oeuvre and
discover the hidden, unseen and unrecorded aspects that shimmer
beneath the surface of even the most fraught realities.
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. Distributed for the Asia Society
Museum Exhibition Schedule: Asia Society and Museum (9/10/09 -
1/3/10)
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