Category: In Focus
Depictions of the Dragon in an early Islamic astrological manuscript
Similar to today’s contemporary culture, pictorial representations in early Islamic manuscripts and literature were highly influenced by social and po [...]
Hermann Nitsch: Sacrifice and the Crises of Performance Art
Animals have been depicted in art for some 40,000 years. Starting with Paleolithic cave paintings animals have continuously appeared in religious and [...]
The (Un)Making of Meaning (or When Meaning Begins to Make Us)
In a time when ideas of definitions, boundaries, representations and interpretations have gained an almost unparalleled fluidity, a subjecti [...]
The Imperishable Construct
No offense to the physicists and science enthusiasts who might question the authenticity of this indication, but we all know of the famous theory of r [...]
From the ‘Silence of Language’ to a ‘Language of Silence’
In the Republic (514a - 520a), Plato has Socrates describe, in what is known as “The Allegory of the Cave”, a group of people in the dark that have be [...]
The Beautiful Excuse of ‘Light’
“Finding your self - yes it’s this huge park in San Diego where we live – it looked so glorious from far away that I asked my husband what it is and h [...]
The Mythology of Monuments
Driving towards Nishan-e-Pakistan –a newly inaugurated "national solidarity monument" – a series of new adverts along Sea View road catches my eye. [...]
Monuments to the Mind
Making monuments is as much a mental act as it is a physical one. The bulk of monumentalising occurs in the mind, even if it is physical and calculabl [...]
This is Not Made by Quddus Mirza
John Baldessari, Commissioned Paintings, 1969
From Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage, 1967
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