Description: Title: Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria Author: Okeke-Agulu, Chika Publisher: Duke University Press Binding: Hardcover Pages: 376 Dimensions: 10.20h x 7.20w x 1.00d Product Weight: 2.64 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780822357322 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. Authorized Dealer Stock Photo- Actual Cover May Vary Ships Fast From The USA!
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Book Title: Duke University Press
Number of Pages: 376 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Postcolonial Modernism : Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: History / Contemporary (1945-), Criticism & Theory, African, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 1.3 in
Item Weight: 38.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 10 in
Subject Area: Art, Political Science
Author: Chika Okeke-Agulu
Item Width: 7.4 in
Format: Hardcover
