What is it about?
This chapter fills in gaps in scholarship on Ghanaian contributions to Ghanaian art history made by Kofi Antubam. The chapter draws on Antubam's seminal book, Ghana's Heritage of Culture. When it came out, Antubam was already regarded as one of the most accomplished African artists of his day.
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Why is it important?
The chapter focuses on the contributions to Ghanaian art history made by Antubam, whose life and work serve as a bridge from the colonial to the postcolonial era.
Perspectives
Writing about Kofi Antubam and his contributions as an artist, art educator and writer was a great pleasure. In the promotion of explicitly Pan-African subject matter, Kwame Nkrumah shared an affinity with him. Of course, others, such as Oku Ampofo, Vincent Kofi and many craftspeople benefited from state patronage and contributed to the building of Ghanaian modernism during the during the Nkrumah administration. I hope you find the book chapter interesting.
Dr Atta Kwami
Independent
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This page is a summary of: Kofi Antubam, 1922–1964, October 2013, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/9781118515105.ch11.
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