Research Catalog

Title

The UmuEze Amara Clan and the House of Obafemi / Toyin Ojih Odutola.

Author

Odutola, Toyin, 1985-

Publication

• New York, NY : Rizzola Electa, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bellorado-Samuels, Joeonna
• Smith, Zadie
• Raiford, Leigh
• Hockley, Rujeko
• Lang, Melinda
• Lockner, Logan
• Musser, Amber Jamilla
• Yerebakan, Osman Can

Description

248 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 32 cm

Summary

This extraordinary illustrated story--Toyin Ojih Odutola's best-known body of work--chronicles the private lives of two fictional aristocratic Nigerian families, the UmuEze Amara Clan and the House of Obafemi, if colonialist and slave-trade interventions had never disrupted the country. Rendered life-size in charcoal, pastel, and pencil, Ojih Odutola's figures appear enigmatic and mysterious, set against the artist's larger conceived narrative, highlighting the malleability of identity and assumptions about race, wealth, and class. The UmuEze Amara Clan and the House of Obafemi presents the story of these families in four chapters illustrated and authored by Ojih Odutola, accompanied by the artist's sketches and notes. Also included are several insightful essays on the artist herself by noted writers and critics Zadie Smith, Leigh Raiford, and others. An introduction to the artist's vivid fictionalized world, as well as a reflection on the role of this body of work within her broader practice, this remarkable volume serves as the essential guide to Ojih Odutola's unique form of storytelling.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

Works.

Subject

• Odutola, Toyin, 1985-
• Odutola, Toyin, 1985- > Interviews
• 2000-2099
• African American women artists > United States
• Drawing, American > 21st century
• Figurative art, American > 21st century
• Art, Modern > 21st century
• Nigerians > In art
• Nigerians > Portraits
• Upper class in art
• Homosexuality in art
• Wealth
• African American women artists
• Art, Modern
• Drawing, American
• Nigerians
• United States

Genre/Form

• Art.
• Interviews.
• Pictorial works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 247).

Contents

Foreword / Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels -- Taking up heirs / Toyin Ojih Odutola -- What would we be like if racism never existed? / Zadie Smith -- A matter of fact -- To wander determined -- Testing the name -- Scenes of exchange -- When legends die -- Toyin Ojih Odutola : museum of the African Diaspora / Leigh Raiford -- Toyin Ojih Odutola : by her design / Rujeko Hockley, Melinda Lang -- Toyin Ojih Odutola : testing the name / Logan Lockner -- Toyin Ojih Odutola : when legends die / Amber Jamilla Musser -- There is no story that is not true: an interview with Toyin Ojih Odutola / Osman Can Yerebakan -- Studio.

Call Number

Sc+ G 21-76

ISBN

• 0847870677
• 9780847870677

OCLC

1242025985

Author

Odutola, Toyin, 1985- artist, author, interviewee.

Title

The UmuEze Amara Clan and the House of Obafemi / Toyin Ojih Odutola.

Publisher

New York, NY : Rizzola Electa, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 247).

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Bellorado-Samuels, Joeonna, writer of foreword.

Smith, Zadie, contributor.

Raiford, Leigh, contributor.

Hockley, Rujeko, contributor.

Lang, Melinda, contributor.

Lockner, Logan, contributor.

Musser, Amber Jamilla, contributor.

Yerebakan, Osman Can, interviewer.

Research Call Number

Sc+ G 21-76