The Rest Is Silence: Zahoor Ul Akhlaq: Art and Society in Pakistan

by Roger Connah

Taking off from the tragic murder in January 1999 of the Pakistani artist Zahoor ul Akhlaq, the book charts the story of this elusive artist. The more the author Roger Connah researched, the more versions of a truth emerged. Known as the painter's painter within Pakistan, Akhlaq appears to
have lived a life so public that it became secret, a critical fiction. A permanently picaresque figure, Akhlaq recalls those Sufi scholars from the ninth and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195474724
• ISBN13: 9780195474725
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 9.7"