Manzar: Art and Architecture from Pakistan 1940s to Today - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8836659624 ISBN 13: 9788836659623

Publisher: Silvana Editoriale, 2025

Synopsis

• Manzar offers a unique insight into Pakistan’s artistic landscape
• Published to accompany an exhibition at National Museum, Qatar, from 1 November 2024 to 31 January 2025

Qatar Museums will open a first-of-its-kind exhibition exploring the arts and architecture from Pakistan since the 1940s. Organised by the future Art Mill Museum and presented in collaboration with the National Museum of Qatar, the exhibition - and its accompanying catalogue - presents the enormously diverse output of the painters, photographers, architects and others who have defined the array of narratives, histories, and contemporary perspectives of Pakistan’s cultures over the past 80 years.

Originated in Arabic, the word ‘Manzar’ in Urdu can be translated to mean a scene, a view, a landscape or a perspective, highlighting the extraordinary vitality of the diverse art scenes in Pakistan and its diasporas. A selection of approximately 200 paintings, drawings, photographs, videos, sculptures, installations, tapestries and miniatures present multifaceted modernities and contemporary practices.

The catalogue, designed by Kiran Ahmad, expands on the research with essays by important art and architecture historians, educators, artists and architects from Pakistan.

About this title

About the Author

Book designed by Kiran Ahmad https://www.kiranahmad.com/

Cover image: Farida Batool, Nai Reesan Shehr Lahore Diyan, 2006, Lenticular print, Courtesy of the artist.

Contributors: Catherine Grenier, Caroline Hancock, Zarmeene Shah, Akbar Naqvi, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi and Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar, Salima Hashmi, Iftikhar Dadi, Sean Anderson, Quddus Mirza, Murad Khan Mumtaz, Aurélien Lemonier, Hassan Uddin Khan, Naazish Ata-Ullah, Rasheed Araeen, Adnan Madani, Mariah Lookman and H. M. Naqvi, Nighat Said Khan, Karachi LaJamia, Fazal Rizvi, Noor Butt, and Farah Al Sidiky.

From the Back Cover

Qatar Museums will open a first-of-its-kind exhibition exploring the arts and architecture from Pakistan since the 1940s. Organized by the future Art Mill Museum and presented in collaboration with the National Museum of Qatar, the exhi­bition - and its accompanying catalogue - presents the enormously diverse output of the painters, photographers, architects and others who have defined the array of narratives, histories, and contemporary perspectives of Pakistan's cultures over the past eighty years.
Originated in Arabic, the word 'Manzar' in Urdu can be translated to mean a scene, a view, a landscape or a perspective, highlighting the extraordinary vitality of the diverse art scenes in Pakistan and its diasporas. A selection of approximately 200 paintings, drawings, photographs, videos, sculptures, installations, tapestries and miniatures present multifaceted modernities and contemporary practices.
The catalogue, designed by Kiran Ahmad, expands on the research with essays by important art and architecture histo­rians, educators, artists and architects from Pakistan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Silvana Editoriale
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8836659624
• ISBN 13: 9788836659623
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Caroline Hancock, Aurélien Lemonier