African modernism has been the subject of numerous key publications in the last two decades. Besides surveys such as A Companion to Modern African Art edited by Gitti Salami and Monica Blackmun Visonà (2013), leading journals published special issues such as “Art Historical Perspectives on African Modernism” (African Arts 39 [1], 2006) or “African Modernism” (The South Atlantic Quarterly 109 [3], 2010) edited by Chika Okeke-Agulu and Salah M. Hassan respectively. In addition, Okeke-Agulu's Postcolonial Modernism in Nigeria (2015), Atta Kwami's Kumasi Realism in Ghana (2013), Elizabeth Harney's In Senghor's Shadow (2004), or monographs on modern artists like Ben Enwonwu by Sylvester Ogbechie (2008)—to name just a few—represent fundamental contributions to modern African art scholarship. They variously build on earlier publications since the 1990s (most notably Seven Stories of Modern Art in Africa, ed. Clémentine Deliss [1995] and Elza Miles's monograph on Ernest Mancoba [1994])...
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August 03 2021
Modernist Art in Ethiopia
Modernist Art in Ethiopia
by Elizabeth W.
Giorgis
Athens
: Ohio University Press
, 2019
. 360 pp., 53 color illus., bibliography, index. $39.95, paper
Fiona Siegenthaler
Fiona Siegenthaler
Fiona Siegenthaler is an art historian and social anthropologist specializing in contemporary African art. She lectures at the University of Basel and is a research associate at the University of Johannesburg. Fiona.Siegenthaler.fs@gmail.com
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Fiona Siegenthaler
Fiona Siegenthaler is an art historian and social anthropologist specializing in contemporary African art. She lectures at the University of Basel and is a research associate at the University of Johannesburg. Fiona.Siegenthaler.fs@gmail.com
Online ISSN: 1937-2108
Print ISSN: 0001-9933
© 2021 by the Regents of the University of California
2021
Regents of the University of California
African Arts (2021) 54 (3): 94–96.
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Fiona Siegenthaler; Modernist Art in Ethiopia. African Arts 2021; 54 (3): 94–96. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_r_00607
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