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Doors of perception
 Jamal Shah’s colour has a strange quality of simultaneously seeming totally invented and yet being natural. Aside from its general affinities with the heightened, decorative colour of Matisse and Derain, his colour is sometimes so far out, so blatantly charged...
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Three’s company
 In art, as in literature, the tendency to deify the artist as creator who fashions with his hands something original that reflects his mind and soul, is a pervasive one. Although...
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Return to the Sphinx
 In 1970, Syed Nayab Hussain, the widely travelled journalist and professor of English Literature and Journalism, Sindh University, wrote of A.R. Nagori:...
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Sieving things through
 Treatment of the feminine form as a zone of contest and celebration, its selection as a site for resolution, catharsis and debate has produced surprisingly new and alarming images of women....
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Architecture and landscapes
 He doesn’t talk much about his work; is almost reticent. Muhammed Shafiq has been painting for some 35 years. He could be anyone, a wanderer who saunters from the rural to the urban, just looks up at the huge buildings, thinks of those who made them...
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The miniature moghal
 There was a time, not too long ago, when miniature painting was on the verge of extinction. It has made a come back owing to the efforts of a small number...
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Provincializing heritage
 Ever since Viceroy Lord Curzon established the Department of Archaeology in the subcontinent in 1901, the responsibility of looking after historical monuments, and what in the modern idiom is known as...
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Reviving a past tradition
 Accounts given by senior artists of their days in Lahore as art students invariably mention the coffee houses that were the favourite haunts of writers, artists, and people with issues to...
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