& Western approaches to Africa's visual culture have until
recently separated 'traditional' from 'modern' as if the two
categories had no common ground, and as if only the former was
authentically African. Yet 'tradition' is also an active process of
handing on, one subject to evolution, development and history. This
book explores a burgeoning body of West African artistic production
that draws upon photography, advertising, graphic design, European
art history and Ghanaian history and culture. As such it
constitutes an envisioning of a local modernity centred upon
Kumasi, a vibrant trading city at the centre of local, national and
international networks, whether historical, economic, political,
educational, religious or aesthetic. The art described here,
whatever its immediate purpose, reflects and interprets this
intense and unique local context. Among the Ghanaian painters
discussed are E.V. Asihene, Grace Kwami, E.K.J. Tetteh, Ablade
Glover, Ato Delaquis, B. Offei Nyako, Atta Kwami, kari'kacha
seid'ou, Bob Acheampong and many others whose practice was college
based. Kwami also discusses the art and lives of Kumasi's leading
sign painters - King Samino (King Samino Sign Art Services), Alex
Amofa (Supreme Art Works), Kwame Akoto (Almighty God Art Works),
Isaac Azey Otchere (Azey Alberto Art Sign Service), and Isumaila
Moro (Iss Hi-Tech Prints) - thereby exploring the interrelationship
of two entwined traditions, two art worlds of modern painting
centred at either the university and/or the signpainter's workshop.
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