Transgressing Borders, Shaping an Art History

Sanyal, Sunanda K.

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“…Westerners also form the largest reading audience of the literary materials on African art. Unfortunately, to this audience, what is often considered 'African authenticity' is a virtue which a modern African artwork must possess before it could be accepted as an authentic African art work.It continues to have a negative affect on the production of African artists in the international art market (Sanyal 2002;136). More over it is a development that adversely affects proper analysis, interpretation and stylistic appropriation for art historical purposes.…”

Section: Modern Nigerian Art and Some Problems Of Its Historymentioning

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Art and the Canker-Worm Years in Nigeria, 1980-2006; the Implications for Modern Nigerian Art, Its History and Documentation

Odiboh¹

2011

Afr. Res. Rev.

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The imagery of the Cankerworm is used as metaphor and analogy to indicate a period of increasing authoritarianism in Nigerian government, official mismanagement, as well as sloppiness in government policies. This paper examines the consequences of the historical trend on modern Nigerian art as well as its history and documentation. Modern art in Nigeria and indeed the whole of Africa is not exactly along the lines of western experiences and this is because it is a derivative of specific historical background different in context, content and types from those of Europe and the United States In spite of the unfortunate postcolonial trend in Africa, modern Nigerian art has been an anomaly of the deplorable tendencies because of its transmutation through identifiable developmental stages, which is, the colonial and the postcolonial.

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Section: Modern Nigerian Art and Some Problems Of Its Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

Art and the Canker-Worm Years in Nigeria, 1980-2006; the Implications for Modern Nigerian Art, Its History and Documentation

Odiboh¹

2011

Afr. Res. Rev.

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Transgressing Borders, Shaping an Art History

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Art and the Canker-Worm Years in Nigeria, 1980-2006; the Implications for Modern Nigerian Art, Its History and Documentation

Art and the Canker-Worm Years in Nigeria, 1980-2006; the Implications for Modern Nigerian Art, Its History and Documentation

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