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Truck Art, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Truck Art, Islamabad, Pakistan.

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... "a function of visual culture as a window into the structure and politics of contemporary societies" (12) (Figures 3 and 4). Truck drivers are not the sole initiators of truck painting, but are usually intermediaries between owners and painters with often different intentions for painting: the owners seek to make a business statement and establish uniqueness in the market, which also gives them a chance for personal expression as paintings can include specific requirements of subject and theme and colour of the painters; the painters are part of a large circle of locally-based small businesses run individually or in groups. ...