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This books takes into consideration the changes that have occurred within the visual art landscape in Nigeria during the 20th century. This historical change is the result of new cultural exchanges between Africa, Europe and America, exchanges that developed different artistic practices and promoted new patrons. In this framework, cities have played a fundamental role in the development of modern art, especially because of the presence of a local or international art market. All the chapters of this book are related to specific Southern Nigerian cities: some are places of ancient royal art patronage (bronze casting in Benin City), some are city market where various popular expression of art could have developed (calendar in Onitsha), a few are strictly university based (Nsukka) but most of them have welcome elements of artistic lineages scattered all over Nigeria (the Fákéye family for instance).

Art, Nigerian --- Nigerian art --- Golden Dreams (Group of artists) --- art galleries --- Lagos --- Nigerian ARt --- Southern Nigeria

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Exhibitions --- Art, Nigerian --- Art, Urhobo --- Urhobo (African people) --- Urhobo [culture] --- Nigeria --- Art, African --- Social life and customs --- Sobo (African people) --- Urhobo art --- Nigerian art --- Edo-speaking peoples --- Ethnology --- Golden Dreams (Group of artists)

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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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Otobong Nkanga: Uncertain Where the Next Wind Blows" is the accompanying catalogue of the inaugural exhibition of the Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award Programme. Both the exhibition and catalogue present a broad spectrum of Otobong Nkanga's (b. 1974) oeuvre through almost 70 works created within the last 20 years. Nkanga's drawings, installations, tapestries, photographs, sculptures, and performances explore the complex impact of human history and presence on nature and landscapes. Through her multidisciplinary practice, Nkanga studies resource extraction, manufacture, and the global circulation of goods in the economy. Exhibition: Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Bærum, Norway (13.11.2020 - 24.05.2021).

Art --- drawings [visual works] --- installations [visual works] --- pollution --- colonization --- natural resources --- reclamation --- easel paintings [paintings by form] --- Nature --- globalization --- Nkanga, Otobong --- Art, Nigerian --- Sculpture, Nigerian --- Metal sculpture --- Installations (Art) --- Assemblage (Art) --- Painting --- Drawing --- 7.07 --- Nkanga, Otobong °1974 (°Kano, Nigeria). Woont en werkt in Antwerpen, België --- Vrouwelijke kunstenaars --- Drawings --- Sketching --- Graphic arts --- Illustration of books --- Manual training --- Oil painting --- Painting, Primitive --- Paintings --- Art, Modern --- Dadaism --- Found objects (Art) --- Metal-work --- Sculpture --- Nigerian sculpture --- Nigerian art --- Golden Dreams (Group of artists) --- History --- Kunstenaars met verschillende disciplines, niet traditioneel klasseerbare, conceptuele kunstenaars A - Z --- Nkanga, Otobong, --- Exhibitions --- #breakthecanon --- paintings [visual works]