Category: In Focus
The Role of the Artis
The Role of the Artist in Times of Terror
As terror and violence have become a growing reality of daily life across the globe, people have learned to [...]
Globalism in the Wake of Conceptual Art
The art history and art theory of the 20th century was dominated by a methodology that equates the pictorial with the linguistic. In the most extreme [...]
Peeling the Proverbial Onion
To address the relationship between art and language one must revisit the circular history of modern avant-gardism of 1960s Britain - the birth of con [...]
Hamra Abbas
“As an artist I feel a sense of responsibility,” says Hamra Abbas and she goes on to explain that she believes artists carry a burden to vie [...]
The Kitsch Factor
Defying easy categorization kitsch, prized or loathed, entertained or rejected, reflects mass-cultural values in a given era while simultaneously expo [...]
Decorated Trucks of Pakistan
Meaning is always in process, what has been called “a momentary stop in a continuing flow of interpretations of interpretations”. This paper pauses at [...]
Art, Globalisation and Politics
With the globalisation of the art world, national differences among artists have grown increasingly marginal. There is little to distinguish Pakistani [...]