Sadequain and the Culture of Enlightenment - Naqvi, Akbar
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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 uniquein the world: honouring the modern viability of his culture of enlightenment which flourished from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.…mehr

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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 uniquein the world: honouring the modern viability of his culture of enlightenment which flourished from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.
Autorenporträt
Akbar Naqvi holds a PhD in English Literature from Liverpool University. He taught at Patna University from 1954 to 1956 and from 1959 to 1962. He has taught European Art History at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture from 1990 to 1995; and has lectured on Pakistani Art and Sculpture at National College of Art, Lahore, from 2000 to 2005. In addition he has written regular art and architecture reviews for the daily Sun; Dawn, Muslim; and Herald. Dr Naqvi has delivered lectures both in Pakistan and abroad on Modern Art and Sculpture, including to the Royal Asiatic Society, London, 1996; University of Manchester and Metropolitan University of Manchester, 1996; and the Brunei Art Gallery, SOAS, London, 2000. Two of his books, Image and Identity: Painting and Sculpture in Pakistan 19471997 (1998; 2nd edition: 2010) and The Making of Art: The Pakistan Story (2000) have been published by Oxford University Press, Pakistan.