Shahzia Sikander / Jason Rosenfeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenfeld, Jason, author.

Contributor:

Sikander, Shahzia, 1969- artist.

Series:

Contemporary painters series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sikander, Shahzia, 1969---Criticism and interpretation.

Sikander, Shahzia.

Genre:

catalogs (documents)

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

144 pages : illustrations (color) ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

[London] : Lund Humphries, [2025]

Summary:

The first standalone monograph on the internationally renowned artist Shahzia Sikander, which takes her beautiful paintings as its focus while also examining the influence of the medium on her diverse body of work. This publication covers the entirety of the multivalent art of Pakistan-born American artist Shahzia Sikander (b.1969), with a particular focus on her painting. It contextualises her art within her early education in Lahore, move to America in 1993, and then her establishment in the New York art world since 1997. Sikander's work is among the most thought-provoking and ambitious in the contemporary art world. Initially transforming the traditional form of miniature painting, she pioneered what is now recognised as the Neo-Miniature movement, and over the past 20 years has sought to diversify a predominant Eurocentricity in contemporary art. Her paintings, video animations, mosaics and sculptures interweave historical and contemporary ideas about narrative, gender, trade, empire, and diaspora while centring on women's lives. This book considers the scope of Sikander’s considerable ambition and achievement.

Contents:

Foreword / by Barry Schwabsky

Introduction

Rupture

Displacement

New York

Dissonance

Ascension.

Foreword / Barry Schwabsky

Ascension

Biography

Select Bibliography

Teaching

Select Solo Exhibitions

Select Group Exhibitions

Public Installations and Commissions

Select Public Collections

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 137) and index.

Contains:

Sikander, Shahzia, 1969- Works. Selections

ISBN:

9781848226883

1848226888

OCLC:

1518931032

Publisher Number:

CIPO000219941