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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.

Art, Nigerian --- Art, Nigerian. --- Decolonization --- Decolonization. --- Postcolonialism --- Postcolonialism. --- 1900-1999. --- Nigeria. --- History of civilization --- art history --- postkolonialisme --- modernisme --- Nigeria --- Colonisation. Decolonisation --- Art --- postcolonialism --- #breakthecanon --- anno 1900-1999 --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Nigerian art --- Golden Dreams (Group of artists) --- Sovereignty --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Colonization

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Artiste visionnaire, Bodys Isek Kingelez a créé une série de propositions utopiques, de villes inscrites dans un avenir pacifié et prospère. Né au Congo belge en 1948, il entre dans l'âge adulte alors que son pays connaît de profondes mutations, après son accession tourmentée à l'indépendance. A la fin des années 1970, à Kinshasa, capitale d'un nouvel Etat-nation rebaptisé Zaïre, il élabore ses premières oeuvres en transformant des matériaux modestes - papier, carton, plastique et emballages - en sculptures d'une éblouissante complexité. Inspirées en grande partie par la vie trépidante et l'architecture de la capitale (où il vivra jusqu'à sa mort en 2015), ses créations évoquent des bâtiments publics, des monuments, des pavillons d'expositions et des gratte-ciels, tour à tour isolés ou agencés en mégalopoles tentaculaires et imaginaires

Kingelez, Bodys Isek --- Kunst --- utopia's --- schaalmodellen [afmeting] --- architectural models --- karton [cardboard] --- Art --- utopias --- scale models --- cardboard --- #breakthecanon