"A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art" African art and history book

Description: A very special out-of-print, vintage art exhibition catalogue from the Museum for African Art in New York City! New/never used. Excellent condition. 110 pages with 55 full-color and 30 black-and-white photographs. Includes essays, history, and poetry. "Icons are complicated things: flawed, vulnerable, changeable in meaning, gaining and losing power over time. But Patrice Lumumba's aura seems to be intensifying rather than diminishing, in the third world and elsewhere." -Holland Cotter, New York Times, 1999 Patrice Lumumba was the young firebrand African politician who led the independence movement in what was then the Belgian Congo and pushed hard for the strength-in-numbers ideal of a pan-African unity. Something of the excitement and tension of that era comes across in ''A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art." It is a compact and moving show of paintings that explores complex ways in which the image of a cultural hero is both recorded and reinvented during his lifetime and after his death. The show was organized by Bogumil Jewsiewicki, a professor of history at Laval University in Quebec. Read more about the art exhibition featured in this book: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/06/arts/art-architecture-lifting-up-an-african-hero-to-mythic-status.html https://wallach.columbia.edu/exhibitions/congo-chronicle-patrice-lumumba-urban-art

Price: 200 USD

Location: New York, New York

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