A Thousand and One Days Pakistani women artists

The art of the miniature found one of its areas of greatest technical and creative excellence in the Indian subcontinent.
The Indian miniature, in its most elevated moments, particularly in the 17th century under the domination of the Mogul dynasty, founded a genuine tradition which was handed down during the following centuries, though with increasingly tired results.
From the mid 1990s a group of young Pakistani artists revived the miniature in all its technical excellence, at the same time leading it towards new and surprising themes: it would not be exaggerated to speak of a "new miniature" whose protagonists, Muslims and Indians, with profound cultural roots yet at the same time brought up in an extremely traditional society full of conflicts, deal powerfully with the contents of their country and our times, with invention, irony or with outright drama.
The exhibition, of which this volume is the catalog, exhibits 50 selected works by Nusra Qureshi, Talha Rathore, Tazeen Qayyum, Sumaira Tazeen, Rita Saed, Saira Sheik, Shehrbano Quizilbash and Shahzia Sikande, together with essays by the curators and one by Salima Hashmi, a writer and art critic, and by biographies of the artists.