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Nonetheless, East Africa remains underrepresented in the exploration of African innovation. With Modernist Art in Ethiopia, Elizabeth E. Giorgis offers the primary monograph on pioneer Ethiopian craftsmanship, arranging it in a complex social history of present day experience focused in the capital of Addis Ababa. Her interdisciplinary investigation of the sociopolitical, scholarly, and tasteful practices and talks in 20th and mid twenty-first century Ethiopia includes points of view on metropolitan life, papers, magazines, theater, execution and visual expressions, in this way outlining the last option inside a multi-layered sociocultural setting.

Giorgis' point is to foster a hypothesis of "Ethiopian advancement and innovation" (p. xiii) that undermines the transcendentalist historiography of Ethiopia and its social creation that has won in the account of expansionism in Africa