Kumasi Realism, 1951 - 2007 - An African Modernism

Study of West African art, drawing on photography, advertising, graphic design, European art history and Ghanian history.

About the author

Atta Kwami is a painter, printmaker, independent art historian and curator. He trained and taught in Kumasi, Ghana and in the UK, where he was a Visiting Fellow at the Cambridge/Africa Collaborative Research Programme, Art and Museums in Africa (2012/2013). His work appears in major collections including the National Museums of Ghana and Kenya; the V&A Museum, London; the National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Newark Museum, USA; The Chazen Museum, University of Wisconsin-Madison; University of Michigan Museum of Art; and The British Museum.

Summary

Study of West African art, drawing on photography, advertising, graphic design, European art history and Ghanian history.

Product details

• Authors: Atta Kwami, Kwami Atta
• Publisher: Hurst Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.12.2013
• EAN: 9781849040877
• ISBN: 978-1-84904-087-7
• Dimensions: 190 mm x 254 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 1520 g
• Illustrations: 75 colour, Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Ghana, Art of indigenous peoples, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / African, History of Art, Relating to indigenous peoples, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Indigenous styles