Chika Okeke-Agulu

Postcolonial Modernism

Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria

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Produktbeschreibung

Written by one of the foremost scholars of African art and featuring more than 125 color images, Postcolonial Modernism chronicles the emergence of artistic modernism in Nigeria in the heady years surrounding political independence in 1960.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 922g
• ISBN-13: 9780822357469
• ISBN-10: 0822357461
• Artikelnr.: 40703279

Autorenporträt

Chika Okeke-Agulu is an artist, curator, and Associate Professor in the Department of Art & Archaeology and the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University. He is a coauthor of Contemporary African Art since 1980 and coeditor (with Okwui Enwezor and Salah M. Hassan) of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. Postcolonial Modernism 1
1. Colonialism and the Educated Africans 21
2. Indirect Rule and Colonial Modernism 39
3. The Academy and the Avant-Garde 71
4. Transacting the Modern: Ulli Beier, Black Orpheus, and the Mbari
International 131
5. After Zaria 183
6. Contesting the Modern: Artists' Societies and Debates on Art 227
7. Crisis in the Postcolony 259
Notes 291
Bibliography 313
Index 327