Abstraction in Post-independence Pakistan, Bangladesh and India

Sadia Shirazi was a 2017-18 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the United Kingdom and Spain for three months. Shirazi "explores the largely unexamined history of abstraction and transnational modernism across post-independence Pakistan and India." More specifically, Shirazi also focuses "on key artists in both countries who were part of the modernist art movement but who, due to their use of abstraction, proved difficult to synthesize into figurative, modernist art historical canons within South Asia."