Yoruba, Sculpture of West Africa
Author : William Buller Fagg
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,33 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Sculpture
ISBN :
Yoruba
Author : William Buller Fagg
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
Yoruba Art and Language
Author : Rowland Abiodun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 42,63 MB
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1139992872
Book Description
The Yoruba 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 Yoruba 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 Abiodun offers new insights into Yoruba art and material culture by examining them within the context of the civilization's cultural norms and values and, above all, the Yoruba language. Abiodun draws on his fluency and prodigious knowledge of Yoruba culture and language to dramatically enrich our understanding of Yoruba 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.
Yoruba
Author : Henry John Drewal
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 20,33 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
The Yoruba people of Nigeria and Benin, over 15 million strong, are heirs to one of the oldest and greatest artistic traditions in West Africa. This text offers a look at Yoruba civilization. Over 200 photographs illustrate rarely seen objects from museums and private collections.
Genesis
Author : Alisa LaGamma
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 39,56 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 1588390748
Book Description
The seventy-five masterpieces presented here, drawn from public and private American collections, are among the most celebrated icons of African art, works that are superb artistic creations as well as expressions of a society's most profound conceptions about its beginnings. All are reproduced in color and are accompanied by entries that illuminate the distinctive cultural contexts that inspired their creation and informed their appreciation."--BOOK JACKET.
Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba
Author : Suzanne Preston Blier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 41,34 MB
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1107729173
Book Description
In this book, Suzanne Preston Blier examines the intersection of art, risk and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife and the striking ways that ancient Ife artworks inform society, politics, history and religion. Yoruba art offers a unique lens into one of Africa's most important and least understood early civilizations, one whose historic arts have long been of interest to local residents and Westerners alike because of their tour-de-force visual power and technical complexity. Among the complementary subjects explored are questions of art making, art viewing and aesthetics in the famed ancient Nigerian city-state, as well as the attendant risks and danger assumed by artists, patrons and viewers alike in certain forms of subject matter and modes of portrayal, including unique genres of body marking, portraiture, animal symbolism and regalia. This volume celebrates art, history and the shared passion and skill with which the remarkable artists of early Ife sought to define their past for generations of viewers.
Dynasty and Divinity
Author : Henry John Drewal
Publisher : National Museum of African Art
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
Presents a major part of the extraordinary corpus of ancient Ife art in terra-cotta, stone, and metal, dating from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries.
The Art of Africa
Author : Christa Clarke
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,36 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 1588391906
Book Description
A CD-ROM and DVD set extracted from the 'The Art of Africa: A Resource for Educators.' The CD-ROM "contains a PDF of 'The Art of Africa: A Resource for Educators, ' which features forty traditional works of African art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It includes a brief overview of the Metropolitan's collection of African art; a short introduction and history of Africa; an explanation of the role of visual expression in the continent; descriptions of the featured works of art and background about the materials and techniques that were used to created them ... The DVD, 'Ci Wara Invocation, ' "presents the highlights of a dozen ci wara performances in Bamana communities in present-day Mali that were recorded by five different observers between 1970-2002. Among the Bamana, oral traditions credit a mythical being named Ci Wara, a divine being half mortal and half antelope, with the introduction of agriculture to the Bamana. The ci wara performances are part of biannual celebrations that either launch or conclude the farming season."--Container
Surfaces
Author : Leonard Kahan
Publisher :
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 22,77 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
Explores the power and potency of surfaces in African sculpture
The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present
Author : Aribidesi Usman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 18,85 MB
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1107064600
Book Description
A rich and accessible account of Yoruba history, society and culture from the pre-colonial period to the present.
