Art and architecture in postcolonial Africa
By: Janet Berry Hess.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Nationalism and art -- Africa; Art and state -- Africa; National characteristics in art -- Africa; Art, African -- 20th century; Architecture -- Africa -- 20th century
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Exhibiting Ghana: display, documentary, and spectacle in Ghana; title: Displaying Asante: Asante ideology and alternative representations of the "nation"; title: Imagining architecture: the structure of nationalism in Accra; title: Imagining architecture II: "treasure storehouses" and constructions of Asante Hegemony; title: Envisioning Ujamaa: architecture of Dodoma and Dar es Salaam; title: Reversing the gaze: exhibition, postapartheid art and the politics of display; title: Representations of the body in postcolonial Africa; title: Gaze, "tradition," and African art history; title: Envoi: expressive culture and performativity in the diaspora.