Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities

Pioneering Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander is one of the most influential artists working today. Sikander is widely celebrated for expanding and subverting miniature painting to explore gender roles and sexuality, cultural identity, racial narratives, and colonial and postcolonial histories. This lively volume presents her powerful early work, created between 1987 and 2003, from South Asian, West Asian, and Western perspectives, illuminating new understandings for a wide audience. Charting her early development as an artist in Lahore and the United States, the book reclaims her critical role in bringing miniature painting into dialogue with contemporary art, especially in Pakistan, international art discourse of the 1990s, and contemporary global practices and debates.

Author: Sadia Abbas
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Published: 05/17/2021
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 10.70h x 8.60w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9783777435596
ISBN10: 3777435597
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions | General
- Art | Individual Artists | Monographs
- Art | American | General

About the Author
Sadia Abbas is a scholar, novelist, and associate professor at Rutgers University-Newark. Jan Howard is the chief curator and Houghton P. Metcalf Jr. Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at RISD Museum.