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Shema, Anwar Jalal

Anwar Jalal Shemza - 214 pages


Texts by Iftikhar Dadi, Rachel Garfield, Courtney J. Martin, Hammad Nasar and Shezad Dawood
"Published on the occasion of BP Display : Anwar Shemza 12 October 2015- Autumn 2016, Tate Britain, London"--Page [215]


Texts by Iftikhar Dadi, Rachel Garfield, Courtney J. Martin, Hammad Nasar and Shezad Dawood.

Layering postwar geometric abstraction with Arabic calligraphic forms, Anwar Jalal Shemza's rich and imaginative body of work is surveyed for the first time in this comprehensive volume.He then moved to London in the mid 1950s to study at the Slade School of Fine Art, where his art underwent fundamental transformation.His subsequent work in painting, drawing and printmaking rigorously deploys geometric and calligraphic forms to engage with dilemmas of identity, culture and place in the modern and contemporary era.Born in India in 1928, Shemza attended art school in Lahore, Pakistan, and was soon recognised there as a leading artist and literary figure.Accompanying over 100 illustrations of works and rare archival material, a text by Iftikhar Dadi provides an overview of his career alongside essays by Shezad Dawood, Rachel Garfield, Courtney Martin and Hammad Nasar that offer perspectives on his work, contemporary reception and influence on a younger generation.

ISBN: 9781909932135

Subjects--Topical Terms:
History, geographic treatment--Biography --Individual Artists 
Art, Modern--Geometrical constructions in art
Shimzā, Anvar Jalāl, 1928-1985 Exhibitions

Dewey Class. No.: 790.2 SHE / 14803