Giorgis, Elizabeth W.,

Modernist art in Ethiopia / Elizabeth W. Giorgis. - xx, 339 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. - New African histories . - New African histories series. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-337) and index.

Early to mid-twentieth-century modernism (1900-1957) and the formati on of the Fine Art School -- Intellectual thought of the 1960s: the pri me of Ethiopian modernism -- The modernists of the 1960s: Gebre Kristos Desta and Skunder Boghossian and their students -- Enat Hager Weym Mot (revolutionary motherland or death): art during the Derg, 1974-91 -- C ontemporary Ethiopian art: 1995-2015.

9780821423479 (pb : alk. paper)

2018-045761


Modernism (Art)--Ethiopia.
Art, Ethiopian--20th century.
Art, Ethiopian--21st century.
Art--Political aspects--Ethiopia.

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