Join a Met curator to explore Home Is a Foreign Place, a suite of 36 woodcut prints on handmade paper by the artist Zarina. The series explores memory and home through an evocative combination of text and image.
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Zarina Hashmi (American, born India, 1937–2020), Home is a Foreign Place, 1999. Portfolio of 36 woodcut chine collé with Urdu text printed on paper and mounted on paper. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The George Economou Collection Gift, 2013 (2013.565a–nn)
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Home Is a Foreign Place
Join a Met curator to explore Home Is a Foreign Place, a suite of 36 woodcut prints on handmade paper by the artist Zarina.
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