Transcending Borders: A Comprehensive Dialogue
Sohail Akbar
UNFRAMED: DISCOVERING IMAGE PRACTICES IN SOUTH ASIA by Edited by Rahaab Allana HarperDesign, HarperCollins India, 2023, 672 pp., INR 1999.00
December 2023, volume 47, No 12

South Asia has arguably been the cradle of the visual from times immemorial. Story telling in picture form from fables to epics has a place in the history of the subcontinent. Painting, sculpture, printing, weaving, sketching are practices that the people have used continuously. With the coming of modernity visual culture underwent its own transformation. Humans reflected on the world around them and adapted new tools to comment on society,

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