Yoruba avant-garde artists of the modern era / Bolaji Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Bolaji, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Yoruba.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Nigeria.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

xiv, 218 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Trenton, New Jersey : Africa World Press, [2026]

Summary:

"This book examines the Yoruba Avant Garde artists of the modern era. It highlights an important, but underrepresented and under-acknowledged cadre of artistic personalities in the Yoruba cultural traditions known as, Are. Are, are trailblazers, and cultural innovators, like their French counterparts, the Avant Garde, who must set, of necessity, a new artistic agenda for others to emulate. Our goal is to situate these artists within the dialectics of modernism and postmodernist currents and how, their artistic impulses intersect with colonial and postcolonial discourses in modern Yoruba society."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Era of modernization

Nascent modernists

The workshops

Mythical realism

Ona: the beginning...

Diaspora dimensions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781569029008

1569029008

9781569029015

1569029016

OCLC:

1569861736

Publisher Number:

CIPO000356740