Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in by Chika Okeke-Agulu

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By Chika Okeke-Agulu

Written through one of many finest students of African artwork and that includes 129 colour pictures, Postcolonial Modernism chronicles the emergence of inventive modernism in Nigeria within the heady years surrounding political independence in 1960, earlier than the outbreak of civil conflict in 1967. Chika Okeke-Agulu lines the creative, highbrow, and significant networks in numerous Nigerian towns. Zaria is very very important, since it was once there, on the Nigerian collage of Arts, technological know-how and know-how, workforce of scholars shaped the paintings Society and inaugurated postcolonial modernism in Nigeria. As Okeke-Agulu explains, their works convey either a deep reference to neighborhood creative traditions and the stylistic sophistication that we've got come to go along with twentieth-century modernist practices. He explores how those younger Nigerian artists have been encouraged via the rhetoric and ideologies of decolonization and nationalism within the early- and mid-twentieth century and, later, via advocates of negritude and pan-Africanism. They translated the studies of decolonization right into a particular "postcolonial modernism" that has endured to notify the paintings of significant Nigerian artists.

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