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ART IN PAKISTAN AND MIDDLE EAST:
9 BOOKS
ART IN PAKISTAN - EARLY YEARS
By Jalaluddin Ahmed
LONDON: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. / 1972
With 72 plates, each in colour and tipped-in
Originally issued as an unbound portfolio, this is a
library rebind in full cloth
Size 11.5 x 11 inches
Chughtai, Sadequain, Fyzee Rahamin, Allah Bukhsh,
Zainul Abedin, Zubeida Agha, Shakir Ali and many
more.
Ex-Library copy but title-page is clean
BASHIR MIRZA - ACRYLIC SERIES 1989-1994
Introduction by Victor Anant
Edited by Marjorie Husain
c. 1995
KARACHI: Continental Publishers
pp. 104 with about 60 colour images of works by Mirza
and a poem by him
Hardcover with dusjacket
Bashir's Mirza's visiting card while he was cultural
minister in Australiaattached is taped to endpaper with
the words 'With compliments' written in hand.
Size 10 x 9 inches
PAKISTAN ANOTHER VISION - FIFTY YEARS OF
PAINTING AND SCULPTURE FROM PAKISTAN
Edited by Timothy Wilcox
Catalogue of exhibition in theUK in 2000
pp. 80
softcover / 11 x 9 inches
CELEBRATING THE SPIRIT OF THE ART OF PAKISTAN
Catalogue of exhibition held at Gallerie Sadequain in
Karachi in 2001
Also called the Takhti Exhibition since all artists painted
on takhtisor wooden writing plaques for the show.
pp. 74
Softcover / 10 x 8 inches
PLAYING WITH A LOADED GUN - CONTEMPORARY
ART IN PAKISTAN
Catalogue of exhibition held in Germany in 2004
Text in English and German
11 artists
exhibited.br.pp.32
Stapled softcover / 9.5 x 7.5 inches
ZAHOOR UL AKHLAQ
By Roger Connah
Published in Canada / 2000
pp. 109 with 75 pages of full-page plates
Hardback
Size 7.5 x 5.5 inches
SADEQUAIN - THE STYLISH CONTEMPORARYOF
PAKISTAN by W. K. Bhatty
5-page essay with 12 illustrations in complete issue of
ARTS OF ASIA for March - April 1973
WORD INTO ART - Artist of the Modern Middle East
Catalogue of exhibition held in Dubai in 2008 and
curated by Venetia Porter and Saeb Eigner
pp. 160
Fine hardback with fine dustjacket
Size 11 x 9 inches
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY SAUDI ART: Al-
Mansouria Collection
Catalogue of exhibition held in Bahrain in 2014
Text in English and Arabic
Large hardcover
11 x 11 inches
Rs 1,00,000-Rs 1,20,000
$1,540-$1,850