entangled freedoms

Notes/Art as archive

Commodity Nationalism and the Trope of the Pavillion

This image is the front page of a booklet for the Pakistan Pavilion, published by the New York World’s Fair 1964-1965 Corporation. April 1963, the date on the booklet of the Pakistan Pavilion, is less than 20 years after the independent nation-state of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan was established on the modern world map.…

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Entangled Freedoms: Decolonial Modernisms as Transnational Relations of Resistance, 1940s-1980s

As we initiate our series of blog posts “Art as Archives of Decolonisation”,here is a short note on the key propositions of ENTANGLED FREEDOMS How did 20th-century artistic modernisms visualize, entangle, and transform plural visions of freedom across and beyond geographies of Cold War and decolonization?  Between the 1940s and 1980s, as retreating European colonial…

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