Rashid Rana: Perpetuel Paradoxe ParadoxeAbout the artist Rashid Rana was born in Lahore, Pakistan. He received a BFA from the National College of Arts, Lahore and an MFA at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. He is a globally recognized artist distinct for his ideas, imagery and pictorial strategies. He has developed a conceptually driven, well informed art practice, which consists of a pixilated attention to formal concerns. His works revolve around a subtle simultaneous exploration

and pays tribute to the writers—such as Walser

In the ten conversations with the writer and theologian Klaus Dermutz collected here

’ begins Sartre as he ventures into a long analysis of how the work of one of his contemporaries who might save this form—Geroges Bataille

was the daughter of Demeter and Zeus who was abducted by Hades and made queen of the netherworld

Hoyt Rogers pays homage to the author

Andrey Tarkovsky only made seven films

Somnath Hore had a long and storied career that overlapped the boundaries between art and activism

wide-ranging selection of essays on American films helmed by non-American filmmakers

14 b/w illustrations

past and future

active participation of the reader

Raoul Schrott also weaves in a history which ranges from ancient Greek legends of the origin of light to the medieval darkness of the eclipse