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Victor Ehikhamenor

Chronicles of the Enchanted World
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This visually striking book is the first to explore the oeuvre of the celebrated multidisciplinary Nigerian artist, and its themes of identity, globalization, migration, cultural heritage, and African postcolonial identities. From his birth in a rural village in Nigeria to his unorthodox ascent as a global art star Victor Ehikhamenor is garnering worldwide attention for his vibrant and incisive works that engage contemporary art, African history, and the postcolonial politics of global Black identity. Drawing inspiration from his Nigerian roots, Ehikhamenor fuses tradition with contemporary expression through intricate patterns, symbolic motifs, and a rich visual language that weaves together the threads of mythology and cultural heritage. Brimming with boldly colored photographs and reproductions, this book focuses on Ehikhamenor's most recent work such as Daydream Esoterica, Saints and Sanctums, Still Standing, and A Biography of the Forgotten, investigating them through a transcultural analysis of mobility, circulation, networks, and connectivity. It explores seven key aspects of the artist's practice-rosaries, perforations, installations, paintings, drawings, collage, and sculpture-to show how he creates complex portraits of African peoples and African spaces. AUTHOR: Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, Professor of Art History at the University of California Santa Barbara, is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts Research and the author of Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist and Making History: African Collectors and the Canon of African Art Collection. He is editor and co-author of Artists of Nigeria and founder/editor of Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture. He consults on African and African Diaspora arts for major museums in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America. 100 colour, 10 b/w illustrations

Author Biography:

SYLVESTER OKWUNODU OGBECHIE, Professor of Art History at the University of California Santa Barbara, is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts Research and the author of Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist and Making History: African Collectors and the Canon of African Art Collection. He is editor and co-author of Artists of Nigeria and founder/editor of Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture. He consults on African and African Diaspora arts for major museums in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Release date NZ
October 8th, 2024
Pages
208
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
110
ISBN-13
9783791377131
Product ID
38684206

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