Zarina Hashmi, Artist of a world in Search of Home, dies at 86th
Zarina Hashmi, Artist of a World in Search of Home, Dies at 86th Ms. Hashmi was of a generation of artists whose life and work were haunted by the 1947 partition of Indian The artist Zarina Hashmi, who became internationally known for woodcuts and intaglio prints, many including semiabstract images of houses and cities she had lived in. Credit... Ram Rahman 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 85. 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 semiabstract images of houses and cities she had lived in accompanied by inscriptions written in Urdu, a language spoken primarily by Muslim South Asians. (It is ...
