REST IS SILENCE

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-547472-5
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 252 mm, Gewicht: 1168 g

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.

Zielgruppe

This book set out on a unique journey to explore the Pakistani artist's life and contribution to Pakistani art. The approach has been to try and understand the fragments of this life, and suggest some of the critical fictions made from his work during what has been for the country of Pakistan a strange history. It should be of interest to students, teachers, academics interested in art and to all those following the current debates today between Islam and the West, between tradition and Modernity, between personal ambition, talent and grief.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Connah, Roger

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstpsychologie und -soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Islamische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part 1: Fragments from a Critical Life
Part 2: Critical Fictions
Part 3: Strange History
A Gift Misunderstood - coda

Über Autor(innen)

Connah, Roger
Roger Connah is a writer and researcher based in Ruthin, North Wales. He has lived and worked as a university teacher and visiting professor in Finland, Sweden, India and the US. Since 2001, he has been Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Architecture. In 2003 he was The Brendan Gill Lecturer, Yale University School of Architecture from which he produced the book How Architecture got its Hump. He started Pulp Architecture with John Maruszczak in 2001 at the University of Texas at Arlington. Besides teaching he has produced and designed books, films and exhibitions over three decades in these various countries.

Roger Connah is a writer and researcher based in Ruthin, North Wales. He has lived and worked as a university teacher and visiting professor in Finland, Sweden, India and the US. Since 2001, he has been Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Architecture. In 2003 he was The Brendan Gill Lecturer, Yale University School of Architecture from which he produced the book How Architecture got its Hump. He started Pulp
Architecture with John Maruszczak in 2001 at the University of Texas at Arlington. Besides teaching he has produced and designed books, films and exhibitions over three decades in these various countries.