Sadequain and the Culture of Enlightenment
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Pakistan
- Date of Publication 28 January 2016
- ISBN 9780199066483
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 248x185x15 mm
- Weight 616 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 24 colour 0
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Short description:
The book looks at the great Pakistani painter from a new angle. The author writes on his personality, calligraphy, poetry, drawing and painting in the context of twentieth century modernism. Sadequain was a great modern artist who created a new art in which he interpreted change as the need of time. He was an innovative calligrapher, poet, master of drawing, mural and easel painting who combined his skill in all of these crafts/arts to create works which are unique in the world: honouring the modern viability of his culture of enlightenment which flourished from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.
MoreLong description:
Although the artist Sadequain was commonly regarded as a modernist, the author, who is well known as an art critic and connoisseur, suggests that his art was most modern when he was traditional, and strictly traditional when modern. This prolific and versatile artist was a khattat (calligrapher), book binder, master of drawing, painter, and poet. Thus, in himself, he was a one-man traditional guild of the Muslim art of the Middle Ages, in which all of the above disciplines were in fact practised by different skilled persons. He thus revived the memory of this tradition in a modern visual vocabulary and syntax which would appeal to the people and stir their memory of loss, at the same time reinvigorating their pride. In his poetry, too, Sadequain reverted to the traditional, painting the tragedy and ecstasy of love for a universal beloved, typical of the Urdu ghazal. Thus, he created cathartic works of great pleasure in each of the traditional disciplines of Muslim Art. Each of the essays in this book opens a window on Sadequain and his roshan khayali, or enlightened culture, the culture of the enlightened people of the northern subcontinent, in Dr Naqvis interpretation of modern art.
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Images
Prologue
1. Framing Sadequain: Malamati or Holy Sinner?
2. Sadequain and Khattati
3. Sadeqians Khuskhati in Line Drawing
4. Sadeqains Robayi
5. Chughtai and Sadequain
6. Sadequain and Shakir Ali
7. Shahid Sajjad and the Beginning of Time
8. Alberuni and Amir Khusro: Beacons of Enlightenment
Epilogue
Glossary
Index
Sadequain and the Culture of Enlightenment
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