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001 2005020084
003 DLC
005 20150228075725.0
008 050713s2006 ncuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2005020084
015 $2bnb$aGBA523386
016 7 $a013136039$2Uk
020 $a0786420766 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm58554872
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042 $apcc
043 $af------
050 00 $aN72.N38$bH47 2006
082 00 $a709/.667/09045$222
082 00 $a700.96$222
100 1 $aHess, Janet Berry.
245 10 $aArt and architecture in postcolonial Africa /$cJanet Berry Hess.
260 $aJefferson, N.C. :$bMcFarland & Co.,$cc2006.
300 $aix, 209 p. :$bill., maps ;$c26 cm.
520 $a"This work examines the complexity of popular artistic culture in the era of African nationalism, with a special focus on the influential independence era in Ghana. Discussed are architecture, museum exhibitions, political displays, nationalist ideologies, artistic practices, and the intangible forms of art"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 179-202) and index.
505 0 $aExhibiting Ghana: display, documentary, and spectacle in Ghana -- Displaying Asante: Asante ideology and alternative representations of the "nation" -- Imagining architecture: the structure of nationalism in Accra -- Imagining architecture II: "treasure storehouses" and constructions of Asante hegemony -- Envisioning Ujamaa: architecture of Dodoma and Dar es Salaam -- Reversing the gaze: exhibition, postapartheid art and the politics of display -- Representations of the body in postcolonial Africa -- The gaze, "tradition," and African art history -- Envoi: expressive culture and performativity in the diaspora.
650 0 $aNationalism and art$zAfrica.
650 0 $aArt and state$zAfrica.
650 0 $aNational characteristics in art$zAfrica.
650 0 $aArt, African$y20th century.
650 0 $aArchitecture$zAfrica$xHistory$y20th century.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0516/2005020084.html