Challenges to rural festivals with the return to democratic rule in southeastern Nigeria.(Emerging Scholarship In African Art)

From: African Arts | Date: December 22, 2005| Author: Bentor, Eli | Copyright information

The last fifteen years have seen a major shift in the study of African art. Beginning as a discipline largely devoted to' the study of rural art forms in their religious and social contexts, it is now mainly focused on urban artists working as part of an increasingly globalized art world. This can be demonstrated simply by looking at the program of the Triennial Symposium on African Art, the content of articles in African Arts, or the themes of research of most recent and current g...

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