{"product_id":"9780822357469","title":"Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria","description":"\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49785141952752,"sku":"9780822357469","price":58.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780822357469","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}