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Postcolonial Modernism

By Chika Okeke-Agulu

Postcolonial Modernism

By Chika Okeke-Agulu

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Written by one of the foremost scholars of African art and featuring 129 color images, Postcolonial Modernism chronicles the emergence of artistic modernism in Nigeria in the heady years surrounding political independence in 1960, before the outbreak of civil war in 1967. Chika Okeke-Agulu traces the artistic, intellectual, and critical networks in several Nigerian cities. Zaria is particularly important, because it was there, at the Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, that a group of students formed the Art Society and inaugurated postcolonial modernism in Nigeria. As Okeke-Agulu explains, their works show both a deep connection with local artistic traditions and the stylistic sophistication that we have come to associate with twentieth-century modernist practices. He explores how these young Nigerian artists were inspired by the rhetoric and ideologies of decolonization and nationalism in the early- and mid-twentieth century and, later, by advocates of negritude and pan-Africanism. They translated the experiences of decolonization into a distinctive "postcolonial modernism" that has continued to inform the work of major Nigerian artists.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
374
Release Date:
2015-03-02
Publication Date:
2015-03-02
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0822357461
ISBN13:
9780822357469
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
1041 g
Height:
178 cm
Width:
254 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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