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Postcolonial modernism: art and decolonization in twentieth-century Nigeria
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ISBN: 9780822357322 0822357321 9780822357469 0822357461 082237630X Year: 2015 Publisher: Durham (N.C.) Duke University Press

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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.


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Nationalism and the Rhetoric of Modernism in Nigeria : The Art of Uche Okeke and Demas Nwoko, 1960-1968

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El Anatsui : The Reinvention of Sculpture
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ISBN: 9788862087636 8862087632 Year: 2022 Publisher: Bologna Damiani

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Written by two acclaimed scholars Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu, 'El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture', is the most comprehensive, incisive and authoritative account yet on the work of El Anatsui, the world-renowned, Ghanaian-born sculptor. The product of more than three decades of research, scholarship and close collaboration with the artist, this book shows why his early wood reliefs and terracottas, and the later monumental metal sculptures, exemplify an innovative critical search for alternative models of art making.The authors argue that the pervasiveness of fragmentation as a compositional device in Anatsui's oeuvre invites meditation on the impact of colonization and postcolonial global forces on African cultures. At the same time, the simultaneous invocation of resilience and fragility across his media invests his abstract sculptures with iconic power. Insisting on the intimate connection between form and idea in Anatsui's work, the authors show how, in his critically acclaimed metal works, the manual work of flattening, cutting, twisting, and crushing bottle caps and using copper wires to suture and stitch the elements into one dazzling, reconfigurable epic piece serves as a powerful metaphor for the constitution of human society. This book presents Anatsui as a visionary of incomparable imagination. Yet, it places his work within a broader historical context, specifically the postcolonial modernism of mid-twentieth-century African artists and writers, the cultural ferment of post-independence Ghana, as well as within the intellectual environment of the 1970's Nsukka School. By recovering these histories, and subjecting his work to vigorous analysis, the authors show how and why Anatsui became one of the most formidable sculptors of our time.


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Contemporary african art since 1980
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Year: 2009 Publisher: Bologna Damiani

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Art --- art [discipline] --- Poiré, Emmanuel --- Geers, Kendell --- Shonibare, Yinka --- El Anatsui --- Bellamine, Fouad --- Kacimi, Mohamed --- Katarikawe, Jak --- Hazoumè, Romuald --- Breitz, Candice --- Gaba, Meschac --- Tayou, Pascale Marthine --- Owusu-Ankomah --- Abdessemed, Adel --- Aboudramane, Doumbouya --- Aboueu, Damase --- Adéagbo, Georges --- Adenaike, Tayo --- Akpan, Sunday Jack --- Amoda, Olu --- Atnafu, Elisabeth --- Bamgboyé, Oladélé Ajiboyé --- Basto, Luís --- Boghossian, Skunder --- Buhari, Jerry --- Camara, Fodé --- de Souza, Allan --- Debela, Achamyele --- Dia, Tamessir --- Diab, Rashid --- Diba, Viyé --- Dieng, Modou --- Dimé, Moustapha --- Donkor, Godfried --- Doob, Joel Mpah --- Dosunmu, Andrew --- Douglas Camp, Sokari --- Egonu, Uzo --- Ekpuk, Victor --- Salahi, el, Ibrahim --- Elkoussy, Hala --- Ennadre, Touhami --- Essaydi, Lalla --- Étoundi Essamba, Angèle --- Evans, Mary --- Fani-Kayode, Rotimi --- Fatmi, Mounir --- Fosso, Samuel --- Hafiz, Farghali Abdel --- Haloba, Anawana --- Hefuna, Susan --- Himid, Lubaina --- Hlungwani, Jackson --- IngridMwangiRobertHutter --- Ishag, Kamala --- Issa, Iman --- Jantjes, Gavin --- Kainebi, Osahenye --- Kamel, Rafik --- Senghor, Fatou Kandé --- Kane-Si, Amadou --- Kenawy, Amal --- Khadda, Mohamed --- Khalil, Omer --- Koloane, David --- Konaté, Abdoulaye --- Koraïchi, Rachid --- Kosrof, Wosene --- Kouélany, Bill --- Kure, Marcia --- Kwami, Atta --- Kwei, Samuel Kane --- Langa, Moshekwa --- Lawson, Clemclem --- Loko, EL --- Maamoun, Maha --- Mahdaoui, Nja --- Malangatana, Valente Ngwenya --- Mansaray, Abu-Bakarr --- Dumas, Marlene --- Meledge, Ernestine --- Mihindou, Myriam --- Mntambo, Nandipha --- Muholi, Zanele --- Muriuki, James --- Musa, Hassan --- Mutu, Wangechi --- Nabil, Youssef --- Naim, Sabah --- Nasr, Moataz --- Ndiaye, Iba --- Ndiritu, Grace --- Nhlengethwa, Sam --- Niati, Houria --- Nkanga, Otobong --- Odita, Odili Donald --- Odundo, Magdalene --- Oguibe, Olu --- Okore, Nnenna --- Okudzeto, Senam --- Ole, Antonio --- Onobrakpeya, Bruce --- Onyango, Richard --- Petros, Dawit --- Phokela, Johannes --- Rahmoun, Younès --- Rose, Tracey --- Samb, Issa --- Schreuders, Claudette --- Searle, Berni --- Segogela, Johannes --- Shaath, Randa --- Shawky, Wael --- Shimi, Batoul --- Sinzogan, Julien --- Sirry, Gazbia --- Sow, Ousmane --- Stopforth, Paul --- Subotzky, Mikhael --- Tiruneh, Eshetu --- Toguo, Barthélémy --- Tokoudagba, Cyprien --- Touré, Yacouba --- Trah Bi, Ninin --- Turki, Hedi --- Twins Seven-Seven --- Udechukwu, Obiora --- Udemba, Emeka --- van der Merwe, Hentje --- Veleko, Nontsikelelo --- Mthethwa, Zwelethu --- Tillim, Guy --- Ractliffe, Jo --- Goldblatt, David --- Mofokeng, Santu --- Alexander, Jane --- Siopis, Penny --- Waquialla, Osman --- Watts, Ouattara --- Williamson, Sue --- Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette --- Zézé, Assita --- Rhode, Robin --- Ferreira, Ângela --- Hassan, Kay --- Kentridge, William --- Boshoff, Willem --- Kingelez, Bodys Isek --- Ofili, Chris --- Bruly Bouabré, Frédéric --- Amer, Ghada --- Ledy, Cheik --- Moke --- Samba, Cheri --- Bidjocka, Bili --- Sedira, Zineb --- Barrada, Yto --- Mehretu, Julie --- anno 1980-1989 --- anno 1990-1999 --- anno 2000-2009 --- Africa


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El Anatsui at the Clark (exhibition Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 12.06.2011 - 16.10.2011
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ISBN: 9780300175752 Year: 2011 Publisher: Williamstown-Massachusetts New Haven-Connecticut Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Yale University Press

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Who knows tomorrow
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ISBN: 9783865607898 3865607896 Year: 2010 Publisher: Köln Walther König

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Published to accompany an exhibition at the Berlin National Gallery, this richly illustrated book reflects on contemporary Africa and its cultural landscape through the lens of colonial history, using literary and scientific texts and essays.

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Ezumeezu : essays on Nigerian art & architecture : a festschrift in honour of Demas Nwoko.
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ISBN: 9781938598012 1938598016 Year: 2012 Publisher: Glassboro, NJ Goldline & Jacobs

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Wangechi Mutu
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ISBN: 9781838661649 1838661646 Year: 2022 Publisher: London Phaidon Press

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Wangechi Mutu's remarkable body of work touches on such issues as sexuality, ecology, politics, and the rhythms and chaos that govern the world. Her paintings, sculptures, and collages, often enriched with culturally-charged materials including tea, synthetic hair, Kenyan soil, feathers, and sand, interweave fact with fiction, generating a unique form of myth-making that sets her apart from classical history or popular culture. This is the first book to document her evolution and explore her impact.


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The Newark Museum collection : arts of global Africa
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ISBN: 9780932828170 Year: 2017 Publisher: Newark, N.J. Newark Museum

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African modernism in America
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ISBN: 9781885444110 1885444117 Year: 2022 Publisher: New York, NY : New Haven, CT ; London : American Federation of Arts, Distributed by Yale University Press

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Between 1947 and 1967, institutions such as the Harmon Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and historically Black colleges and universities collected and exhibited works by many of the most important African artists of the mid-twentieth century, including Ben Enwonwu (Nigeria), Gerard Sekoto (South Africa), Ibrahim El-Salahi (Sudan), and Skunder Boghossian (Ethiopia). The inventive and irrefutably contemporary nature of these artists' paintings, sculptures, and works on paper defied typical Western narratives about African art being isolated in a "primitive" past. Providing an unprecedented examination of the complex connections between modern African artists and American patrons amid the interlocking histories of civil rights, decolonization, and the Cold War, this fascinating volume reveals a transcontinental network of artists, curators, and scholars that challenged assumptions about African art in the United States and encouraged American engagement with African artists as contemporaries.

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