STOLEN PROPERTY 1
New Still Life Art Photographs by Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima for the Red Apple Series and Serendipity Series.
© Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima. 2024. All rights reserved. No copying, duplication and reproduction in any format of media without the authorization and permission of Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima and International Digital Post Network Limited.
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Have you read "Who Owns Antiquity?"
Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage" by James Cuno, Princeton University Press, 2008.
How can the academic luminary Prof. Kwame Anthony Appiah, author of "Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers"(Norton, 2006) ask "Whose Culture is it Anyway?" and query the origins of the sculptors of the famous Nok terracotta sculptures found in the middle belt region of Nigeria existed from around 500 B.C.E. to 200 C.E.
He said the Nok sculptures were not made for the Nok people.
I have to doubt his knowledge of the historical facts of Nigerian arts and culture. He should have done his research beyond the walls of Princeton University before the publication of his book.
Nok sculptures were made by the Nok people of the ancient Nok Kingdom on themselves for themselves over 2000 years. And the most recent excavations and the latest discoveries have proved that the sculptures were done by the people on different aspects of their lives like historians who wrote books on objects and subjects of different people and events in different places and times.
He should read about the latest discoveries on
https://www.modernghana.com/news/499121/newly-discovered-nok-sculptures-exhibited-for-the-first-time.html
Kwame Akroma-Ampim Kusi Anthony Appiah FRSL (/ˈæpiɑː/ AP-ee-ah; born 8 May 1954) is a British-American philosopher and writer who has written about political philosophy, ethics, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. Appiah is Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University, where he joined the faculty in 2014.[2] He was previously the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.[3] Appiah was elected President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in January 2022.
https://appiah.net/
By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima,
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"Beware of the Night of the Beast"
Still life art photography from
my Red Apple Series and Serendipity Series, the most comprehensive series in still life art photography in the history of contemporary art in Nigeria.
Who is the Beast?
The next one titled "Beauty and the Beast" will reveal the identity of the Beast.
It is political art photography.
All the photographs were shot within 30 days with my smartphone camera in a bedroom/study in September and October, 2024 in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria.
They are available on art canvas for auctions, collections and exhibitions.
There are more than 50 photographs so far and more will be shot before end of this year for the publication of the book of my still life art photography.
There is only one red apple with a gold ring in the world.
It is the invention of yours faithfully, Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, master of the imaginative symbolism in art and literature.
- Ekenyerengozi Michael China,
Publisher/Editor,
NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series
The first book series on Nollywood and the Nigerian film industry since 2013.
https://www.amazon.com/author/ekenyerengozimichaelchima
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My Red Apple Series and Serendipity Series are the most comprehensive series in still life art photography in the history of contemporary art in Nigeria.
All the photographs were shot within 30 days with my smartphone camera in a bedroom/study in September and October, 2024 in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria.
There are more than 50 photographs so far and more will be shot before end of this year for the publication of the book of my still life art photography.
There is only one red apple with a gold ring in the world.
It is the invention of yours faithfully, Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, master of the imaginative symbolism in art and literature.
- Ekenyerengozi Michael China,
Tuesday, October 22, 2024.
Uyo, Akwa Ibom State,
Nigeria.
Publisher/Editor,
NOLLYWOOD MIRROR® Series
The first book series on Nollywood and the Nigerian film industry since 2013.
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Cinewav of Singapore
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