Yinka Shonibare CBE : End of Empire

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by Thorsten Sadowsky (Author)

Format: Paperback / softback 256 pages, 200 Illustrations, unspecified
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag
Imprint: Hirmer Verlag
ISBN: 9783777435893
Published: 24 Jun 2021

Since the 1990s, the British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE (*1962, London) has developed opulently executed sculptures and installations, colourful collages and theatrically staged photographs and films. To do so he transforms episodes from art and history whose effects influence our present-day lives. The volume takes up the traces of colonialism and its consequences for role models, worldviews and body images in the works of Shonibare.

  • Description

by Thorsten Sadowsky (Author)

Format: Paperback / softback 256 pages, 200 Illustrations, unspecified
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag
Imprint: Hirmer Verlag
ISBN: 9783777435893
Published: 24 Jun 2021

Since the 1990s, the British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE (*1962, London) has developed opulently executed sculptures and installations, colourful collages and theatrically staged photographs and films. To do so he transforms episodes from art and history whose effects influence our present-day lives. The volume takes up the traces of colonialism and its consequences for role models, worldviews and body images in the works of Shonibare.