Download or read book Every Man s Guide to Nigerian Art written by Pat Oyelola and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Everyman s Guide to Nigerian Art written by Pat Oyelola and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ben Enwonwu written by Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intellectual biography of a modern African artist and his immense contribution to twentieth-century art history. The history of world art has long neglected the work of modern African artists and their search for forms of modernist expression as either irrelevant to the discourse of modern art or as fundamentally subservient to the established narrative of Western European modernist practice. With this engaging new volume, Sylvester Ogbechie refutes this approach by examining the life and work of Ben Enwonwu (1917-94), a premier African modernist and pioneer whose career opened the way for the postcolonial proliferation and increased visibility of African art. In the decades between Enwonwu's birth and death, modernization produced new political structures and new forms of expression inAfrican cultures, inspiring important developments in modern African art. Within this context, Ogbechie evaluates important issues such as the role of Anglo-Nigerian colonial culture in the development of modern Nigerian art, andEnwonwu's involvement with international discourses of modernism in Europe, Africa, and the United States over a period of five decades. The author also interrogates Enwonwu's use of the radical politics of Negritude ideology to define modern African art against canonical interpretations of Euro-modernism; and the artist's visual and critical contributions to Pan Africanism, Nigerian nationalism, and postcolonial interpretations of African modernity. First and foremost an intellectual biography of Ben Enwonwu as a modern African artist, rather than an exhaustive critical exploration of the discourse of modernism in African art history or in modern art in general, Ben Enwonwu situates the artist historically and interprets his work in ways that surpass traditional discourse around the canon of modern art. Sylvester Ogbechie is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Download or read book The African Diaspora written by Isidore Okpewho and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines the character of New World black cultures and their relationships with the plural societies within which they function. This volume seeks a balanced look at the fate of the African presence in Western society as well as insights into the sources of periodic conflict between blacks and others."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Download or read book Aso Ebi written by Okechukwu Charles Nwafor and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. Okechukwu Nwafor’s volume Aso ebi investigates the practice in the cosmopolitan urban setting of Lagos, and argues that the visual and consumerist hype typical of the late capitalist system feeds this unique fashion practice. The book suggests that dress, fashion, aso ebi, and photography engender a new visual culture that largely reflects the economics of mundane living. Nwafor examines the practice’s societal dilemma, whereby the solidarity of aso ebi is dismissed by many as an ephemeral transaction. A circuitous transaction among photographers, fashion magazine producers, textile merchants, tailors, and individual fashionistas reinvents aso ebi as a product of cosmopolitan urban modernity. The results are a fetishization of various forms of commodity culture, personality cults through mass followership, the negotiation of symbolic power through mass-produced images, exchange value in human relationships through gifts, and a form of exclusion achieved through digital photo editing. Aso ebi has become an essential part of Lagos cosmopolitanism: as a rising form of a unique visual culture it is central to the unprecedented spread of a unique West African fashion style that revels in excessive textile overflow. This extreme dress style is what an individual requires to transcend the lack imposed by the chaos of the postcolonial city.

Download or read book Nigerian Art written by Cornelius Oyeleke Adepegba and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalog of the Library of the National Museum of African Art Branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries written by Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. National Museum of African Art Branch and published by G. K. Hall. This book was released on 1991 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Encounter Images in the Meetings Between Africa and Europe written by Mai Palmberg and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 2001 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positive images of Africa contrast with negative images of misery, war and catastrophes often conveyed by the mass media. This selection of papers debate the images and stereotypes of Africa.

Download or read book Perspectives on Culture and Creativity in Nigerian Art written by Kunle Filani and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nigerian Artists written by Janet L. Stanley and published by Hans Zell Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Styles Schools and Movements in Modern Nigerian Art written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Nigerian Art written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The National Bibliography of Nigeria written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Nigerian Artist of the Millennium written by Daniel Olaniyan Babalola and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nigerian Proverbs written by F. B. O. Akporobaro and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book NEW TRADITIONS FROM NIGERIA written by OTTENBERG SIMON and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1997-10-17 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to political and social upheaval, University of Nigeria artists have turned to the obscure Igbo culture. Drawing on extensive interviews with the artists, and analyzing their art and writings, anthropologist Simon Ottenberg shows how the artists have used the symbols of a little-studied tradition to celebrate their culture and create visual commentaries on their country. 78 color, 115 b&w illustrations.