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Dr. Vijay Garg
Art is one of the most enduring ways through which a civilisation expresses its imagination, beliefs, emotions and relationship with the world around it. Long before written histories became common, human beings communicated through lines, shapes, symbols, colours and images. The story of Punjab’s visual culture is therefore not merely a history of paintings; it is a story of changing societies, spiritual traditions, courtly cultures, village life, crafts, literature, migration and modern ideas.
The geographical region associated with Punjab has witnessed some of the earliest urban cultures of South Asia. The wider northwestern region, including sites associated with th |