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Edited by Sandra Mbanefo Obiago<\/em><\/p>\n

Critical essays by Sylvester Ogbechie, Frank Ugiomoh,\u00a0Edwin Bodjawah, Babacar Mbow,\u00a0Krdyz Ikwuemesi,\u00a0Jerry Buhari, Bernard Akoi-Jackson, Oliver Enwonwu, Chichi Anyagolu- Okoye, Chika Okeke-Agulu, and Olu Oguibe<\/em><\/p>\n

Passion, intellectual curiosity,\u00a0and\u00a0intuition inspired His Royal Majesty Igwe Nnaemeka Alfred Achebe, over a period of forty years, to collect and support artists from his native Onitsha, southeastern Nigeria, Ghana, the broader West African region, and indeed the African continent.<\/p>\n

Accompanying the opening of his Chimedie Museum<\/strong> to the public\u2014a repository to house and display his personal art collection\u2014this volume chronicles the Obi of Onitsha\u2019s journey as a collector and patron, and it is written in an easily navigable language by some of the finest scholars on the subject. It illuminates the many friendships he has forged along the way with several artists, becoming as entangled in the process of making as in acquiring their work, much in the manner of the patrons of the High Renaissance.<\/p>\n

This book\u00a0illuminates not only the Obi of Onitsha\u2019s collecting\u00a0thrust and underlying philosophy,\u00a0but it also chronicles his\u00a0relentlessness\u00a0and successes in restoring marginalized artists to mainstream discourse.\u00a0In addition, this publication\u00a0addresses the emerging role of art patronship in Africa and how indigenous collectors are expanding narratives\u00a0on the art of the African\u00a0continent. Lavishly illustrated in full color,\u00a0the volume\u00a0<\/em>features 119 artists drawn from 10 countries including influential figures like Ben Enwonwu, Uche Okeke, Bruce Onobrakpeya, Ablade Glover, El Anatsui, <\/strong>and Ludovic Fadairo.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Carefully selected are 322 masterpieces across a broad diversity of media from the almost 5,000 \u2015 ranging from drawings, paintings in oil, acrylic, and mixed media, photography, prints, etchings, and sculpture in bronze, wood and ivory to installations and site-specific commissioned friezes in the royal palace \u2015 that underscore the His Royal Majesty Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe Collection as one of the largest and most comprehensive African-owned private collections of African art.<\/p>\n

Texts devoted to the main pieces in the collection and biographies of each of the artists represented, whether from the continent or the Diaspora, make this volume a valuable reference work. Special sections are also devoted to the influence of collecting on genres such as portraiture, to Ghanaian artists and to the 60th<\/sup> anniversary of Things Fall Apart<\/em>, the great novel by Chinua Achebe published in 1958 and a milestone in the history of African literature.<\/p>\n

This volume fulfils\u00a0its primary objective to foster research into modern and contemporary\u00a0art in Africa and is the first real reference on understanding the context of African art collecting, with a particular focus on the period from the 1940s to the present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Edited by Sandra Mbanefo Obiago Critical essays by Sylvester Ogbechie, Frank Ugiomoh,\u00a0Edwin Bodjawah, Babacar Mbow,\u00a0Krdyz Ikwuemesi,\u00a0Jerry Buhari, Bernard Akoi-Jackson, Oliver Enwonwu, Chichi Anyagolu- Okoye, Chika Okeke-Agulu, and Olu Oguibe Passion, intellectual curiosity,\u00a0and\u00a0intuition inspired His Royal Majesty Igwe Nnaemeka Alfred Achebe, over a period of forty years, to collect and support artists from his native Onitsha,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29940,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[53],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29225","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-contemporary-art","7":"disponibilita-si","8":"description-off","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/29225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=29225"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=29225"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=29225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}