Title: Art and architecture in postcolonial Africa /
Authors: Hess, Janet Berry.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Nationalism and art Africa.; Art and state Africa.; National characteristics in art.; Art, African; Architecture Africa; Architecture Africa History; National characteristics in art Africa.
Abstract: "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.
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 -- Gaze, "tradition," and African art history -- Envoi : expressive culture and performativity in the diaspora.