Art historian Soma Ghosh examines the many versions of illustrations for ‘The Conference of the birds’ or the ‘Mantiq al tair’ by Attar of Nishapur
Art historian Soma Ghosh examines the many versions of illustrations for ‘The Conference of the birds’ or the ‘Mantiq al tair’ by Attar of Nishapur
Entertainment-wise, a motherfucker: critical race politics and the transnational movement of Melvin van Peebles
“The power of Minhwa lies ultimately in the fact that it participates in a universal code — a common denominator for all living human beings, a core of desires and beliefs that is tied to basic human activities … “
“…a new aesthetic, one of protest, full of popular longings, and that lives in the full multitude of rebellion, is strong and great and captures us with the emotion of battle — this is life.”