{"product_id":"postcolonial-modernism","title":"Postcolonial Modernism","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eWritten by one of the foremost scholars of African art and featuring 129 color images, \u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Chika Okeke-Agulu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53614194884988,"sku":"9780822357469","price":39.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780822357469_667adf25-be0c-4084-8aec-4ce4896a8c4a.jpg?v=1725878558","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/postcolonial-modernism","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}