Modernist Art in Ethiopia

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])...