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Anwar Jalal Shemza

Title: Anwar Jalal Shemza / edited by Iftikhar Dadi.
Author: Shemza, Anwar
Publication: London : Ridinghouse, 2015.

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214 pages : color illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

Artist's name has variant spellings: Shimzā, Anvar Jalāl (b. July 14, 1928; d. Jan.18, 1985) Shemza, Anwar (1928-Jan. 18, 1985) Pakistani painter, printmaker, writer & teacher, active in England.
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. Born in India in 1928, Shemza attended art school in Lahore, Pakistan, and was soon recognised there as a leading artist and literary figure. 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. 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.

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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].

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-210).

Call Number

JQG 16-51

ISBN

9781909932135
1909932132

LCCN

2015513704

OCLC

929606717

Author

Shemza, Anwar, artist.

Title

Anwar Jalal Shemza / edited by Iftikhar Dadi.

Publisher

London : Ridinghouse, 2015.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-210).

Chronological Term

1900 - 1999

Added Author

Dawood, Shezad, author.

Garfield, Rachel, author.

Nasar, Hammad, author.

Martin, Courtney J., author.

Dadi, Iftikhar, author, editor.

Research Call Number

JQG 16-51

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