Postcolonial modernism : art and decolonization in twentieth-century Nigeria

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    • Okeke-Agulu, Chika

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Postcolonial modernism : art and decolonization in twentieth-century Nigeria

Chika Okeke-Agulu

Duke University Press, 2015

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and index

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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.

目次

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

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