Christian art and African modernity / editors, Nicholas J. Bridger and John Picton

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Christian art and African modernity / editors, Nicholas J. Bridger and John Picton

Christian art and African modernity / editors, Nicholas J. Bridger and John Picton

Glienicke Galda Verlag 2020

372 pages illustrations (chiefly color), portraits 27 cm

"The growth of Christianity is one of the major themes of modern African history, yet the emergence of a Christian visual art across the sub-Saharan region has largely been overlooked. (The exception, of course, is Ethiopian Christianity, which has a substantial literature.) This book presents a series of papers dealing with developments in many countries, particularly in the provision of an art that has its place within a liturgical context, and thus situated at the core of Christian ritual practice. Perhaps inevitably, the project of 'inculturation' within the local modernities of sub-Saharan Africa, is a history of both success and failure. In this regard, there is an emphasis on developments in Nigeria (following from the research interests of the editors); but it is hoped that this book will provide the stimulus to further research and publication. Whatever the ups and downs of the histories these papers present, Christianity has proved to be a context in which some works of art of world art-historical significance have been brought into existence"--

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Includes bibliographical references

Christian art and African modernity / John Picton -- Decolonizing Christian art in the making of a global Church / Nicholas J. Bridger, Celso Costantini -- Divinely-inspired Akan state chairs / Courtnay Micots -- Yoruba angels and other flying beings / Elisha P. Renne -- From missionary art to African Christian art : objects from the Spiritan Fathers' Missions in late colonial Angola / Ana Rita Amaral -- From Yorubaland to County Down : a summary of The Kevin Carroll Collection of Yoruba Art at Dromantine Retreat and Conference Centre, Newry, Northern Ireland / Catie Cadge-Moore -- Lost in plain sight : searching for the legacy of Kevin Carroll and the Oye-Ekiti Workshop / Nicholas J. Bridger -- The search for indigenous Christian images in Nigerian Roman Catholic Churches / Chinyere Ndubuisi -- Christianity, Urhobo religious culture, and the work of Bruce Onobrakpeya / Philomina U. Ofuafo -- From Ekiti to Ebute-Metta / Will Rea -- Basil Igwegbe -- Art and church patronage in contemporary Nigeria / Eli Bentor -- The Art of Father Engelbert Mveng SJ / Annette Schemmel -- Indigenized Christian art of Zambian painter Emmanuel Nsama / Andrew Mulenga -- Father John Groeber's Art Workshop at Serima Mission and its impact on the Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture Movement / Elizabeth Morton -- Zimbabwe stone sculpture and the Christian Nativity / Hans Dietrich Huebert, Gillian Ziegner -- Reworking the Isenheim altarpiece in the Keiskamma Altarpiece / Brenda Schmahmann -- The "Rediscovery" of religion in contemporary African art history / Nicholas J. Bridger -- Appendix. Bruce Onobrakpeya's Stations of the Cross, St Paul's Church, Ebute Metta, Lagos / John Picton, Nicholas J. Bridger, Will Rea, Paul Wood

AFA copy 3908801976 gift from Janet Stanley.

Christian art and symbolism -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Modern period, 1500-

Christian art and symbolism -- Modern period

Sub-Saharan Africa

Bridger, Nicholas J. (Nicholas James) editor

Picton, John editor

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