Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities

$45.00 at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

by Sadia Abbas (Editor), Jan Howard (Editor) Pioneering Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander is one of the most influential artists working today. Sikander is widely celebrated for expanding and subverting miniature painting to explore gender roles and sexuality, cultural identity, racial and other underrepresented narratives, and colonial and postcolonial histories. This lively volume presents her powerful early work, created between 1987 and 2003, from South Asian, West Asian, and Western…