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Zarina Hashmi BIOGRAPHY
1937 Aligarh, India - 2020 London, England. Known for: Non-figurative drawing, spatial geometry, woodblock prints and calligraphy.
"Zarina Hashmi, Artist of a World in Search of Home, Dies at 82," Online obituary, The New York Times, by Holland Cotter, May 50, 2020. Ms. Hashmi was of a generation of artists whose life and work... Read full biography
"Zarina Hashmi, Artist of a World in Search of Home, Dies at 82," Online obituary, The New York Times, by Holland Cotter, May 50, 2020. Ms. Hashmi was of a generation of artists whose life and work were haunted by the 1947 partition of India. Zarina Hashmi, an Indian-born American artist who turned... Read full biography
"Zarina Hashmi, Artist of a World in Search of Home, Dies at 82," Online obituary, The New York Times, by Holland Cotter, May 50, 2020. Ms. Hashmi was of a generation of artists whose life and work were haunted by the 1947 partition of India. Zarina Hashmi, an Indian-born American artist who turned the history of her peripatetic life into an emotional and spiritual guide composed of spare images, poetic words and subtle politics, died on April 25 in London. She was 82. The cause was... Read full biography
"Zarina Hashmi, Artist of a World in Search of Home, Dies at 82," Online obituary, The New York Times, by Holland Cotter, May 50, 2020. Ms. Hashmi was of a generation of artists whose life and work were haunted by the 1947 partition of India. Zarina Hashmi, an Indian-born American artist who turned the history of her peripatetic life into an emotional and spiritual guide composed of spare images, poetic words and subtle politics, died on April 25 in London. She was 82. The cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease, said Imran Chishti, her nephew. Ms. Hashmi, who preferred to identify herself professionally by only her first name, became internationally known for woodcuts and intaglio prints, many combining semi-abstract images of... Read full biography
"Zarina Hashmi, Artist of a World in Search of Home, Dies at 82," Online obituary, The New York Times, by Holland Cotter, May 50, 2020. Ms. Hashmi was of a generation of artists whose life and work were haunted by the 1947 partition of India. Zarina Hashmi, an Indian-born American artist who turned the history of her peripatetic life into an emotional and spiritual guide composed of spare images, poetic words and subtle politics, died on April 25 in London. She was 82. The cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease, said Imran Chishti, her nephew. Ms. Hashmi, who preferred to identify herself professionally by only her first name, became internationally known for woodcuts and intaglio prints, many combining semi-abstract images of houses and cities she had lived in accompanied by inscriptions written in Urdu, a language spoken primarily by Muslim So... Read full biography
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"Zarina Hashmi, Artist of a World in Search of Home, Dies at 82," Online obituary, The New York Times, by Holland Cotter, May 50, 2020.
Ms. Hashmi was of a generation of artists whose life and work were haunted by the 1947 partition of India.
Zarina Hashmi, an Indian-born American artist who turned the history of her peripatetic life into an emotional and spiritual guide composed of spare images, poetic words and subtle politics, died on April 25 in London. She was 82.
The cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease, said Imran Chishti, her nephew.
Ms. Hashmi, who preferred to identify herself professionally by only her first name, became internationally known for woodcuts and intaglio prints, many comb...But wait, there's more...
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