African Renaissance: Old Forms, New images in Yoruba Art describes,
analyzes, and interprets the historical and cultural contexts of an
African art renaissance using the twentieth- and
twenty-first-century transformation of ancient Yoruba artistic
heritage. Juxtaposing ancient and contemporary Yoruba art, Okediji
defines this art history through the lens of colonialism, an
experience that served to both destroy ancient art traditions and
revive Yoruba art in the twentieth century.
With vivid reproductions of paintings, prints, and drawings,
Okediji describes how Yoruba art has replenished and redefined
itself. Okediji groups the text into several broadly overlapping
periods that intricately detail the journey of Yoruba art and
artists: first through oppression by European colonialism, then the
attainment of Nigeria's independence and the new nation's
subsequent military coup, and ending with present-day native
Yoruban artists fleeing their homeland.
Based upon extensive interviews with the artists and critical
readings of the existing literature on contemporary Yoruba art,
African Renaissance: Old Forms, New Images in Yoruba Art will
appeal to the art historian and art collector and serve as a
wonderful introduction to the canon of Yoruba art for the general
reader.
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