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Author Giorgis, Elizabeth W., author

Title Modernist art in Ethiopia / Elizabeth W. Giorgis
Published Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 339 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Series New African histories
New African histories series.
Contents Early to mid-twentieth-century modernism (1900-1957) and the formation of the Fine Art School -- Intellectual thought of the 1960s: the prime of Ethiopian modernism -- The modernists of the 1960s: Gebre Kristos Desta and Skunder Boghossian and their students -- Enat Hager Weym Mot (revolutionary motherland or death): art during the Derg, 1974-91 -- Contemporary Ethiopian art: 1995-2015
Summary "If modernism initially came to Africa through colonial contact, what does Ethiopia's inimitable historical condition--its independence save for five years under Italian occupation--mean for its own modernist tradition? In Modernist Art in Ethiopia--the first book-length study of the topic--Elizabeth W. Giorgis recognizes that her home country's supposed singularity, particularly as it pertains to its history from 1900 to the present, cannot be conceived outside the broader colonial legacy. She uses the evolution of modernist art in Ethiopia to open up the intellectual, cultural, and political histories of it in a pan-African context. Giorgis explores the varied precedents of the country's political and intellectual history to understand the ways in which the import and range of visual narratives were mediated across different moments, and to reveal the conditions that account for the extraordinary dynamism of the visual arts in Ethiopia. In locating its arguments at the intersection of visual culture and literary and performance studies, Modernist Art in Ethiopia details how innovations in visual art intersected with shifts in philosophical and ideological narratives of modernity. The result is profoundly innovative work--a bold intellectual, cultural, and political history of Ethiopia, with art as its centerpiece."-- From back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-334) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Modernism (Art) -- Ethiopia
Art, Ethiopian -- 20th century
Art, Ethiopian -- 21st century
Art -- Political aspects -- Ethiopia
ART / History / General
Art, Ethiopian
Art -- Political aspects
Modernism (Art)
Ethiopia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780821446539
0821446533