Yoruba: Avant Garde Artists of the Modern Era

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This book examines the Yoruba Avant Garde artists of the modern era. It highlights an important, but underrepresented and under-acknowledged cadre of artistic personalities in the Yoruba cultural traditions known as, Are. Are are trailblazers and cultural innovators, like their French counterparts, the Avant Garde, who must set, of necessity, a new artistic agenda for others to emulate.

Our goal is to situate these artists within the dialectics of modernism and postmodernist currents and how their artistic impulses intersect with colonial and postcolonial discourses in modern Yoruba society.