Ben Enwonwu: Making of an African Modernist
The history of world art has long neglected the work of modern African artists and their search for forms of modernist expression as either irrelevant to the discourse of modern art or as fundamentally subservient to the established narrative of Western European modernist practice. With this engaging new volume, Sylvester Ogbechie refutes this approach by examining the life and work of Ben Enwonwu (1917-94), a premier African modernist and pioneer whose career opened the way for the...
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An intellectual biography of a modern African artist and his immense contribution to twentieth-century art history.
Introduction Portrait of the Artist in the Shadow of Discourse 11 Making Man: Aesthetics and the Mythic Imagination 222 Making Meaning: Foundations of a Personal Aesthetic 533 Making a Life: Civil Service and Professional Practice 854 Making Ideals: The Aesthetics of Radical Politics 1165 Making Peace: Sins of the Father 1546 Making History: The Cultural Politics of African Modernity 217Notes 227Bibliography 267Index 287
