ARTH 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Guerrilla Warfare, Odinani, Claustrophobia

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARTH 311
• Professor: Professor Jennifer Kennedy

Document Summary

Keywords: colonization, decolonization, art society of zania (cid:862)natu(cid:396)al y(cid:374)thesis(cid:863) Igbo: uli, war of the women, 1929, apartheid, fingo, algerian war of independence. Key people: demas nwoko (nigerian, uche okeke (nigerian, colette oluwabamise (nigerian, gladys mgudlandlu (south african, helen sebidi (south african, djamila bouhird (algerian, djamila boupacha (algerian, gillo pontecorvo (italian-algerian) Outline: modernism from multiple perspectives, colonization, decolonization, what does modernism mean in the context of 20th century african art, three case studies, nigeria. Algeria (cid:862)myth of the a(cid:396)tist(cid:863) fil(cid:373) a(cid:374)alysis dis(cid:272)ussio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d p(cid:396)a(cid:272)ti(cid:272)e. Colonialism and modernism in africa: colonialism is about resources, economic power, and politics, colo(cid:374)ial (cid:374)atio(cid:374)s f(cid:396)a(cid:373)e (cid:272)olo(cid:374)ial (cid:373)issio(cid:374)s as (cid:862)(cid:272)i(cid:448)ilizi(cid:374)g (cid:373)issio(cid:374)s(cid:863, this justification was commonly used when colonizing large parts of africa during the. 19th and 20th centuries: this act of colonization was framed as helping indigenous peoples as opposed to hurting them. The time frame of modern art is different in africa than found in european nations.