Madani, Adnan. 2021. Rana Begum's Abstraction. In: Anita Dawood, ed. Rana Begum: Space, Light, Colour. London: Lund Humphries, pp. 163-167. ISBN 9781848225329 [Book Section]

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Is it possible to rethink abstract painting through the lens of the migrant experience? This exploration of Rana Begum's practice aims to think of how 'content' and signification attach themselves in unconventional ways to the oblique and asignifying surfaces of Begum's installations and paintings: in effect, the claim here is that something called abstraction is being 'abstracted' or removed from an originary moment or culture in Begum's work, and that of her contemporaries speaking of the global and migrant condition through universalized cultural forms.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	Islam, abstract art, globalisation, migration, Bangladesh, South Asia, Rana Begum
Related URLs:	Review
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Visual Cultures
Dates:	Date Event January 2021 Accepted 20 September 2021 Published
Item ID:	36030
Date Deposited:	18 Apr 2024 15:18
Last Modified:	18 Apr 2024 17:35
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/36030

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