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Invisible Woman: Reclaiming Josephine Ifueko Osayimwese Omigie in the History of the Zaria Art Society and Postcolonial Modernism in Nigeria.
- Source :
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African Arts . Summer2019, Vol. 52 Issue 2, p66-79. 14p. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- The article discusses about the work of artist Josephine Ifueko Osayimwese Omigie in the history of the Zaria Art Society and Postcolonial Modernism in Nigeria. It mentions that the Zaria Art Society carries a lot of weight in Africanist art history circles with the name of a club founded by students at the first Western style formal art program in Nigeria; and understand the Zaria Art Society as the product of a new system of Western art education in Nigeria. It also focuses on consideration of the art and life of pioneering woman artist as well as of the role of women in modern Nigerian art.
- Subjects :
- *NIGERIAN art
*POSTCOLONIAL analysis
*WOMEN
*AFRICANISTS
*ART history
*WOMEN & art
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00019933
- Volume :
- 52
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- African Arts
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 143827810
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1162/afar_a_00461