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Yoruba Art and Language

Seeking the African in African Art

By: Rowland Abiodun

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Yoruba Art and Language

Seeking the African in African Art

By: Rowland Abiodun

The Yorùbá was one of the most important civilizations of sub-Saharan Africa. While the high quality and range of its artistic and material production have long been recognized, the art of the Yorùbá has been judged primarily according to the standards and principles of Western aesthetics. In this book, which merges the methods of art history, archaeology, and anthropology, Rowland Abíọ́dún offers new insights into Yorùbá art and material culture by examining them within the context of the civilization's cultural norms and values and, above all, the Yorùbá language. Abíọ́dún draws on his fluency and prodigious knowledge of Yorùbá culture and language to dramatically enrich our understanding of Yorùbá civilization and its arts. The book includes a companion website with audio clips of the Yoruba language, helping the reader better grasp the integral connection between art and language in Yoruba culture.

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Seeking the African in African Art

By: Rowland Abiodun

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Seeking the African in African Art

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"What Follows Six is More Than Seven"

Understanding African Art

By: Rowland Abiodun

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"What Follows Six is More Than Seven"

Understanding African Art

By: Rowland Abiodun

Text of the first William Fagg Memorial Lecture, a series founded to commemorate the African interests of the BM's Keeper of Ethnography between 1969 and 1974. The title refers to a Yorùbá proverb that suggests that we look beyond what is easily observed if we are to understand something. Only if art is placed in an African intellectual context, argues the speaker, can we hope to fully appreciate it. A modern reflection on the `social life of things' which will be of interest to many theoreticians.

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0861591054

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Striking Iron

The Art of African Blacksmiths

By: Allen F. Roberts,Tom Joyce,Marla Berns,William Joseph Dewey,Henry John Drewal,Candice Lee Goucher

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Striking Iron

The Art of African Blacksmiths

By: Allen F. Roberts,Tom Joyce,Marla Berns,William Joseph Dewey,Henry John Drewal,Candice Lee Goucher

The collection of scholarly essays 'Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths' accompanies an international traveling exhibition of the same title organized by the Fowler Museum at UCLA. For more than two millennia, ironworking has shaped African cultures in the most fundamental ways. 'Striking Iron' reveals the history of invention and technical sophistication that led African blacksmiths to transform one of Earth's most basic natural resources into objects of life-changing utility, empowerment, prestige, spiritual potency, and astonishing artistry. The contributions of diverse scholars examine how blacksmiths' virtuosic works can harness the powers of the natural and spiritual worlds, effect change and ensure protection, prestige, and status, assist with life's challenges and transitions, and enhance the efficacies of sacred acts such as ancestor veneration, healing, fertility, and prophecy. The publication features full-color photographic reproductions of over 225 artworks from across the African continent, focusing on the region south of the Sahara and covering a time period spanning early archaeological evidence to the present day. These works include blades, currencies, diverse musical instruments, body adornments, ritual accoutrements, tools, weapons, and other important iron objects. Following its presentation at the Fowler Museum in Los Angeles the exhibition 'Striking Iron' travels to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C., and the Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris"--Provided by publisher.

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Yoruba Art and Language

Yoruba Art and Language

Yoruba Art and Language

Yoruba Art and Language

"What Follows Six is More Than Seven"

"What Follows Six is More Than Seven"

Striking Iron

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