The Rest is Silence
Zahoor ul Akhlaq - Art and Society in Pakistan
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Pakistan
- Date of Publication 6 October 2011
- ISBN 9780195474725
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages350 pages
- Size 252x189x32 mm
- Weight 1168 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Fully illustrated 0
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Long description:
Taking off from the tragic murder in January 1999 of the Pakistani artist Zahoor ul Akhlaq, the book charts the story of this elusive artist. The more the author Roger Connah researched, the more versions of a truth emerged. Known as the 'painter's painter' within Pakistan, Akhlaq appears to have lived a life so public that it became secret, a critical fiction. A permanently picaresque figure, Akhlaq recalls those Sufi scholars from the ninth and tenth century in
Asia. Beginning with an interest in calligraphy, Akhlaq searched for a vibrant cultural practice in contemporary Pakistan. As an artist-wayfarer in and out of cities like Karachi, Delhi, Lahore, Toronto, London, Montreal, Bangkok, Kabul, Teheran, Tokyo, Venice, this book begins to recount a life in
flux, a life on the move, a life exploring the traditions of Islam and the dancing order of a Muslim mind. The necessity and urgency to negotiate the invasions and seductions of Modernity produce unusual reversals in his art and contemporary narratives about the society and culture.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part 1: Fragments from a Critical Life
Part 2: Critical Fictions
Part 3: Strange History
A Gift Misunderstood - coda
