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Kumasi Realism, 1951 - 2007: An African Modernism
Atta Kwami
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Description for Kumasi Realism, 1951 - 2007: An African Modernism
Hardback. Study of West African art, drawing on photography, advertising, graphic design, European art history and Ghanian history. Num Pages: 500 pages, 75 colour. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; ACBK; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 250 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1534.
& 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 ... Read more
& 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
500
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
500
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849040877
SKU
V9781849040877
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About Atta Kwami
Atta Kwami is a painter, printmaker, independent art historian and curator. He trained and taught in Kumasi, Ghana and in the UK, where he was a Visiting Fellow at the Cambridge/Africa Collaborative Research Programme, Art and Museums in Africa (2012/2013). His work appears in major collections including the National Museums of Ghana and Kenya; the V&A Museum, London; the National ... Read more
Reviews for Kumasi Realism, 1951 - 2007: An African Modernism
'This is a brilliant and engrossing investigation into one of the more recent phenomena in the artistic heritage of one of Africa's great cities. Atta Kwami's systematic - yet deeply affectionate - documentation of an African modernism as it developed in Kumasi from the mid-twentieth century is both an intellectual tour de force and a visual feast. Kumasi Realism will ... Read more