outledge India Originals Making Ideas Travel Worldwide Modern Art in Pakistan History, Tradition, Place Simone Wille Series: Visual and Media Histories Series Editor: Monica Juneja Simone Wille's research has carefully traced a focused, influential trajectory of modern and contemporary artistic practice in Lahore . Revelatory and distinctive. — IFTIKHAR DADI, CORNELL UNIVERSITY [A]n innovative study which analyses the position of modern and contemporary art of Pakistan within the traditions of South Asia and modern globalisation. It is essential reading for experts in these fields but also . for those interested in the artistic developments of our times within the Islamic world and beyond its boundaries. — EBBA KOCH, UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA What many Pakistani artists have accomplished through art practice finally finds a parallel in art historiography . Wille compellingly places modern and contemporary Pakistani art within the space of global modernism and Contents art discourse without losing its specificity. Plates — PARUL DAVE MUKHERJI, JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY Acknowledgements Modern Art in Pakistan examines interaction of space, tradition, and history to analyse Preface by Monica Juneja artistic production in Pakistan from the 1950s to recent times. It traces the evolution of modernism in Pakistan and frames it in a global context in the aftermath of Partition. Introduction: A New Sense of Place in Modern Pakistani Art A masterful insight into South Asian art, this book will interest researchers, scholars, and 1. Shakir Ali (1916–75) students of South Asian art and art history, and Pakistan in particular. Further, it will be 2. Zahoor ul Akhlaq (1941–99): The Idea useful to those engaged in the fields of Islamic studies, museum studies, and modern of Space as an Abstract System South Asian history. 3. The Legacy of Pakistan’s Modernism in Simone Wille is an independent art historian, researcher, and writer currently based in Contemporary Art Vienna, Austria. Conclusion Order Form Afterword by Iftikhar Dadi LAST NAME FIRST NAME Bibliography DEPARTMENT About the Author INSTITUTE About the Series Editor m r ADDRESSo Index F r TOWNe d r POSTO AL CODE COUNTRY ISBN: 978-1-13-882109-5 TELEPHONE FAX Hardback Pages: 148 EMAIL Price: `1495, $140, £85* SIGNATURE DATE: Taylor & Francis Books India Pvt Ltd Showroom *From India and South Asia, please e-mail: [email protected] 912 Tolstoy House, 15–17 Tolstoy Marg, 109 Basement, Prakash Mahal, Ansari Road From USA, please e-mail: [email protected] Connaught Place, New Delhi 110 001 Near Ansari Road Gurudwara From the UK/RoW, please e-mail: [email protected] Tel.: +91 (11) 4315 5100, Fax: +91 (11) 2371 2132 Daryaganj, Delhi 110 002 Enquiries: [email protected] Tel.: +91 (11) 4015 5100 [email protected].