Date of Award
Fall 12-14-2021
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Art and Design
First Advisor
Susan Richmond
Second Advisor
Kimberly Cleveland
Third Advisor
Jennifer Siegler
Abstract
The evolution of portraiture in Pakistani truck painting is indicative of strong global influences and local folk elements coming together. Without much patronage or formal vocational guidance, truck painters have inadvertently created a contemporary pop culture phenomenon internationally recognized today as distinctly Pakistani. Truck art and its artists' role in carving out a national identity for Pakistan is a postmodernist continuation of cultural legacies. I argue that truck art has now transcended into a “glocal” entity, more in terms of subject matter than stylistic representation, mainly due to the relentless underappreciated efforts of its artists and that this fusion of the local and the global is most obvious in the burgeoning of truck portraiture.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/25963344
Recommended Citation
Ali, Farah, "The Bold and the Beautiful: Portraiture in Pakistani Truck Art." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2021.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/25963344
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