[DOC] Craft and the Creative Economy by S. Luckman at Arts-Photography

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Written by one of the foremost scholars of African art and featuring 129 color images; Postcolonial Modernism 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.