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African Renaissance: new forms, old images in Yoruba art

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dc.contributor.authorOkediji, Moyo, author
dc.contributor.authorUniversity Press of Colorado, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-22T15:36:24Z
dc.date.available2020-09-22T15:36:24Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references and index.
dc.descriptionOriginally published in 2002.
dc.description.abstractThis book describes, analyses, and interprets the historical and cultural contexts of an African art renaissance using the twentieth-and twenty-first century transformation of ancient Yoruba artistic heritage. Juxtaposing ancient and contemporary Yoruba art, Okediji defines this art history through the lens of colonialism, an experience that served to both destroy ancient art traditions and revive Yoruba art in the twentieth century. With vivid reproductions of paintings, prints, and drawings, Okediji describes how Yoruba art has replenished and redefined itself. Okediji groups the text into several broadly overlapping periods that intricately detail the journey of Yoruba art and artists: first through oppression by European colonialism, then the attainment of Nigeria's independence and the new nation's subsequent military coup, and ending with present-day native Yoruban artists fleeing their homeland. Based upon extensive interviews with the artists and critical readings of the existing literature on contemporary Yoruba art, the book will appeal to the art historian and art collector and serve as a wonderful introduction to the canon of Yoruba art for the general reader.
dc.description.tableofcontentsLost and found: excavation of ancient Yoruba artistic traditions -- Imposition period: suppression of ancient artistic traditions (1900-1945) -- Opposition period: revival of ancient customs and traditions (1945-1960) -- Exposition period: revision of ancient artistic traditions (1960-1990) -- Emigration period: relocation of African artists (since 1990) -- Transatlantic Renaissance: reclamation, retention and returning from diaspora.
dc.format.mediumborn digital
dc.format.mediumbooks
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/212465
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofUniversity Press of Colorado
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dc.rights.accessAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.
dc.subject.lcshArt, Yoruba -- 20th century
dc.titleAfrican Renaissance: new forms, old images in Yoruba art
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