Schemmel: Visual Arts in Cameroon

Annette Schemmel provides a highly illuminating case study of the major actors, discourses and paradigm that shaped the history of visual arts in Cameroon during the second part of the 20th century. Her book meticulously reconstructs the multiple ways of artistic knowledge acquisition � from the consolidation of the �Syst�me de Grands Fr�res� in the 1970s to the emergence of more discursively orie...