Art, parody and politics
Subtitle: dele jegede's creative activism, Nigeria and the transnational space
By: edited by Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà and Toyin Falola
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Trenton, New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9781592219179; 9781592219186
Subjects: Politics and government; Criticism and interpretation; Caricatures and cartoons; Nigerian Art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part A. The context: the intellectual world of dele jegede; title: 1.  Introduction: the artist, his nation, and his audience / Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà; title: 2. The masquerade in the marketplace: dele jegede's introspections in colors and lines / Toyin Falola; title: Part B. "Delelogues": interviews, commentaries and reflections on dele jegede; title: 3. dele jegede, a cartoonist's cartoonist: commentaries from Nigerian cartoonists / Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà; title: 4. dele jegede: the artist and educator: a role model and revered mentor / Tolu Filani; title: Part C. "Dramatizing creativity": jegede and the parody of the society; title: 5. The fun of menace: four voyages around the world of Kole Omole / Tejumola Olaniyan; title: 6. dele jegede and the Aworerin paradigm / Yomi Ola; title: 7. dele jegede: on flower power and witty distortions of Nigeria's power and system failure / Okechukwu Nwafor; title: Part D. The lens between: dele jegede, Nigeria and the transnational space; title: 8. A brush with a paradoxically poor, oil-rich nation and other critical dialogues: Nigeria, Africa, and the African diaspora in the "prism-imagination" of délé jégédé / Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà; title: Part E. Intellectual interventions: dele jegede and African art history; title: 9. Beyond his studio practice: the African art historian in dele jegede / Oluwole Famule; title: 10. dele jegede: portrait of the art historian as an artist / Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie; title: 11. Curating Africa: dele jegede and the imperative of "art" history / Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi; title: Part F. Bull's eye: politics, activism and creativity; title: 12. dele jegede, artistic strategies and the state / Onoyom Godfrey Ukpong; title: 13. Sketching maladies, making meaning: dele jegede's 'scriptorium' and characterization of the Nigerian state / Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà; title: 14. Images of reason: jegede's cartoons in the years of waste / Krydz C. Ikwuemesi; title: 15. dele jegede as an objective painterly eye / Olusegun Ajiboye; title: Part G. Critical nexus: activism, humanism, and leadership; title: 16. A Lagosian original: preliminary notes on the speech of the street / Akin Adesokan; title: 17. dele jegede and his enduring legacy at the University of Lagos / Peju Layiwola; title: 18. Monumental strides and humoristic vibrations: dele jegede as president, Society of Nigerian rtists / Ola Oloidi.