African Artists under Mission Patronage: Focus on Tanzania

African art and artists in the twentieth century were influenced by Western Christian missions, with the Oye-Ekiti Workshop, Cyrene and Serima missions, Grace Dieu and Rorkes Drift missions, Kungoni Center of Culture and Art, Nyumba ya Sanaa/NYS, Bujora Mission, the Hernnhut Brethren of Urambo Mission, the Benedictine Abbey Ndanda, and Maneromango Lutheran Mission making significant contributions.

Format: Hardback
Length: 154 pages
Publication date: 15 August 2023
Publisher: Lexington Books

African art and African artists in twentieth-century Africa were significantly influenced by Western Christian missions, with Fadhili Safieli Mshana's African Artists under Mission Patronage providing a comprehensive survey of the impact. Mshana examines various mission patronage cases, including the Oye-Ekiti Workshop in Nigeria, the Cyrene and Serima missions in Zimbabwe, the Grace Dieu and Rorkes Drift missions in the Republic of South Africa, the Kungoni Center of Culture and Art in Malawi, and the Nyumba ya Sanaa/NYS or "House of Art" in Bujora Mission, the Hernnhut Brethren of Urambo Mission, the Benedictine Abbey Ndanda, and Maneromango Lutheran Mission in Tanzania. He delves into the philosophies and policies of these missions, their training approaches, knowledge exchange processes, attitudes toward art, the role of visual traditions, the use of art objects, the status of artists, and the socio-economic climate of the hosting cultures. Mshana concludes that the artists and the missions that supported them made significant contributions to the history of contemporary African art.

Weight: 426g
Dimension: 240 x 158 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666901511