Art, parody and politics : dele jegede's creative activism, Nigeria and the transnational space / edited by Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà and Toyin Falola.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adésànyà, Adérónké Adésolá.

Falola, Toyin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

jẹgẹdẹ, dele, 1945---Criticism and interpretation.

jẹgẹdẹ, dele.

jẹgẹdẹ, dele, 1945-.

Art, Nigerian--20th century.

Art, Nigerian.

Politics and government.

Caricatures and cartoons.

Criticism and interpretation.

Nigeria--Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons.

Nigeria.

Physical Description:

421 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Trenton, New Jersey : Africa World Press, [2014]

Contents:

Part A. The context: the intellectual world of dele jegede

1. Introduction: the artist, his nation, and his audience / Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà

2. The masquerade in the marketplace: dele jegede's introspections in colors and lines / Toyin Falola

Part B. "Delelogues": interviews, commentaries and reflections on dele jegede

3. dele jegede, a cartoonist's cartoonist: commentaries from Nigerian cartoonists / Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà

4. dele jegede: the artist and educator: a role model and revered mentor / Tolu Filani

Part C. "Dramatizing creativity": jegede and the parody of the society

5. The fun of menace: four voyages around the world of Kole Omole / Tejumola Olaniyan

6. dele jegede and the Aworerin paradigm / Yomi Ola

7. dele jegede: on flower power and witty distortions of Nigeria's power and system failure / Okechukwu Nwafor

Part D. The lens between: dele jegede, Nigeria and the transnational space

8. A brush with a paradoxically poor, oil-rich nation and other critical dialogues: Nigeria, Africa, and the African diaspora in the "prism-imagination" of délé jégédé / Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà

Part E. Intellectual interventions: dele jegede and African art history

9. Beyond his studio practice: the African art historian in dele jegede / Oluwole Famule

10. dele jegede: portrait of the art historian as an artist / Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie

11. Curating Africa: dele jegede and the imperative of "art" history / Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi

Part F. Bull's eye: politics, activism and creativity

12. dele jegede, artistic strategies and the state / Onoyom Godfrey Ukpong

13. Sketching maladies, making meaning: dele jegede's 'scriptorium' and characterization of the Nigerian state / Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà

14. Images of reason: jegede's cartoons in the years of waste / Krydz C. Ikwuemesi

15. dele jegede as an objective painterly eye / Olusegun Ajiboye

Part G. Critical nexus: activism, humanism, and leadership

16. A Lagosian original: preliminary notes on the speech of the street / Akin Adesokan

17. dele jegede and his enduring legacy at the University of Lagos / Peju Layiwola

18. Monumental strides and humoristic vibrations: dele jegede as president, Society of Nigerian rtists / Ola Oloidi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781592219179

1592219179

9781592219186

1592219187

OCLC:

867999943