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Terms and conditions applyArt and Architecture in Postcolonial Africa
Janet Berry Hess
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Format: Book
Pages: 209
Publisher: McFarland
Date Published: Jun 2006
Stock Code: 57790
Binding: Paperback
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Africa's postcolonial era produced remarkable art and architecture. With decolonization, Africa was thrust into nation building and into the related process of negotiating its popular culture, integrating modernism while simultaneously sustaining native tradition, and thereby producing a form of uniquely transitional art.
This work examines the complexity of popular artistic culture in the era of African nationalism, with a special focus on the influential independence era in Ghana. It considers the effects of ideology on artistic production, as well as the relationship between architecture, museum exhibitions, and political displays and growing nationalist ideologies. It also investigates artistic practices associated with bodily expression and explores how these practices were influenced by postcolonial authority. the final chapters focus on intangible forms of art, such as the communal performance, that characterize both African and diasporic art history.
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