A Celebration of Modern Nigerian Art
Author: Chukwuemeka Bosah
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780977339839
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Chukwuemeka Bosah
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780977339839
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Chukwuemeka Bosah
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Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780996908450
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Art of Nigerian Women by Chukwuemeka Bosah is a tightly packaged tome--an astonishingly delightful companion to a meme that was broached in the author's A Celebration of Modern Nigerian Art: 101 Nigerian Artists, published in 2010. In the current volume, Bosah marshals the intellectual capacity of some of the best scholars and curatorial impresarios in the field to contextualize the diversity of works of the artists featured. This work is a feat that must be acknowledged by students of Nigerian art for a number of reasons. First, this book contributes significantly to our knowledge of Nigerian art by its lasered focus on Nigerian women. Second, the author brings to the fore, in the process, a smorgasbord of creative enactments and analyses in an assortment of media by our womenfolk. Third, while Nigeria now boasts of a budding tribe of scholars on the visual arts, this is the first time, to my knowledge, that a book of this type has been published. And this brings us to the fourth reason: this book is the irrefutable demonstration of the maxim about lions having their own historians to obviate distortions that hunters would bring to the history of the hunt. This is a pioneering work, one that deserves a prominent place on the shelves of corporate, institutional, college, and personal libraries. Bosah deserves our admiration for the courage and resources ploughed into this work.
Author: Chinedu Christian Chukueggu
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 322
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Cornelius Oyeleke Adepegba
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Chika Okeke-Agulu
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2015-04-06
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 082237630X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Daniel Olaniyan Babalola
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Onyema Offoedu-Okeke
Publisher: 5Continents
Published: 2012-07-01
Total Pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9788874395477
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Charts the development of modern Nigerian art, analyzing the achievements of leading artists while exploring arts movements within and surrounding the country throughout the past century, in a volume that includes coverage of the works of Olowere and Uche Okeke.