Art and Architecture in Postcolonial Africa

Name: Art and Architecture in Postcolonial Africa
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ISBN: 9780786420766

ISBN-10: 0786420766

ISBN-13: 9780786420766

Edition: 2006

Authors: Janet Berry Hess

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The struggle of African nations to achieve independence from colonial rule was a momentous event in world history, and among the most influential features of the postcolonial independence era was the art and architecture that it produced. With decolonization, Africa was thrust into nation building and into the related process of negotiating its cultures, integrating modernism while simultaneously sustaining regional traditions, and thereby producing a 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. Chapters One and Two consider the ideologies of the…

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 3/6/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.44" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Janet Berry Hess teaches postcolonial theory and art history in the Hutchins Department of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Exhibiting Ghana: Display, Documentary, and Spectacle in Ghana



Displaying Asante: Asante Ideology and Alternative Representations of the "Nation"



Imagining Architecture: The Structure of Nationalism in Accra



Imagining Architecture II: "Treasure Storehouses" and Constructions of Asante Hegemony



Envisioning Ujamaa: Architecture in Dodoma and Dar Es Salaam



Reversing the Gaze: Exhibition, Postapartheid Art and the Politics of Display



Representations of the Body in Postcolonial Africa



The Gaze, "Tradition," and African Art History



Envoi: Expressive Culture and Performativity in the Diaspora


Conclusion


Chapter Notes


Bibliography


Index