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Art and architecture in postcolonial Africa

Title
Art and architecture in postcolonial Africa / Janet Berry Hess.
Author
Hess, Janet Berry.
Publication
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2006.

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Description
ix, 209 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.
Summary
"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. Discussed are architecture, museum exhibitions, political displays, nationalist ideologies, artistic practices, and the intangible forms of art"--Provided by publisher.
Subject
  • Nationalism and art > Africa
  • Art and state > Africa
  • National characteristics in art > Africa
  • Art, African > 20th century
  • Architecture > Africa > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-202) and index.
Contents
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 of 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.
Call Number
Sc F 06-350
ISBN
0786420766 (softcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
2005020084
OCLC
58554872
Author
Hess, Janet Berry.
Title
Art and architecture in postcolonial Africa / Janet Berry Hess.
Imprint
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2006.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-202) and index.
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Sc F 06-350
JFF 06-2209
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