Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan (Asia Society (Yale))

by Salima Hashmi and Mohsin Hamid

Iftikhar Dadi, Carla Petievich, Ayesha Jalal, Quddus Mirza, Naazish Ata-Ullah, Melissa Chiu (Preface), and Vishakha N. Desai (Foreword)

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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,...

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  • ISBN10 0300154186
  • ISBN13 9780300154184
  • Publish Date 6 October 2009
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Yale University Press