عنوان

Problems and Prospects of Uli Art Idiom and the Igbo Heritage Crisis

شماره

LA127289

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Problems and Prospects of Uli Art Idiom and the Igbo Heritage Crisis

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Chuu Krydz Ikwuemesi

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

In their various books on Igbo culture, Simon Ottenberg, Adiele Afigbo, P-J Ezeh, Herbert Cole and Chike Aniakor make references to 'Igbo receptivity', the 'resurgence of Igbo arts', and 'Igbo cultural self-hate', in an attempt to capture the wandering of Igbo cultural attitudes from one level of experience to another. While 'receptivity' and 'resurgence' are positive characterisations and paint a picture of resilience, 'self-hate' depicts a postcolonial nihilist tendency also at the heart of Igbo culture. If art is one major index for expressing and assessing the culture of a people, the Igbo uli art, arguably spanning three stages of historical-stylistic development, offers a basis on which Igbo culture and heritage can be appreciated and appraised in light of its receptivity, resurgence, as well as self-hate. Relying on the works of the uli women classicists, the Nsukka artists, and the outcomes of the Art Republic workshops, I argue that traditions never die in any finalistic sense, but rather degenerate and then regenerate new ideas, while nourishing and refreshing paradigms which extend the history and experience of the old. In their various books on Igbo culture, Simon Ottenberg, Adiele Afigbo, P-J Ezeh, Herbert Cole and Chike Aniakor make references to 'Igbo receptivity', the 'resurgence of Igbo arts', and 'Igbo cultural self-hate', in an attempt to capture the wandering of Igbo cultural attitudes from one level of experience to another. While 'receptivity' and 'resurgence' are positive characterisations and paint a picture of resilience, 'self-hate' depicts a postcolonial nihilist tendency also at the heart of Igbo culture. If art is one major index for expressing and assessing the culture of a people, the Igbo uli art, arguably spanning three stages of historical-stylistic development, offers a basis on which Igbo culture and heritage can be appreciated and appraised in light of its receptivity, resurgence, as well as self-hate. Relying on the works of the uli women classicists, the Nsukka artists, and the outcomes of the Art Republic workshops, I argue that traditions never die in any finalistic sense, but rather degenerate and then regenerate new ideas, while nourishing and refreshing paradigms which extend the history and experience of the old.

تاريخ نشر

2020

توصيف ظاهري

171-201

عنوان

Utafiti

شماره جلد

14/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2683-6408

اصطلاح موضوعی

Art Republic

اصطلاح موضوعی

glocalisation

اصطلاح موضوعی

heritage crisis

اصطلاح موضوعی

Igbo identity

اصطلاح موضوعی

postcoloniality

اصطلاح موضوعی

Uli art

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Chuu Krydz Ikwuemesi

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/26836408-14010011

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y