Okeke-Agulu, Chika,

Postcolonial modernism : art and decolonization in twentieth-century Nigeria / Chika Okeke-Agulu. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2015. - 1 online resource (374 p.) : ill. (chiefly color)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Colonialism and the educated Africans -- Indirect rule and colonial modernism -- The academy and the avant-garde -- Transacting the modern: Ulli Beier, Black Orpheus and the Mbari International -- After Zaria -- Contesting the modern : artists' societies and debates on art -- Crisis in the postcolony.

9780822376309 (ebook)


Art, Nigerian--20th century.
Postcolonialism--Nigeria.
Decolonization--Nigeria.