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The Shattered Gourd
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Okediji
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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The Shattered Gourd uses the lens of visual art to examine connections between the United States and the Yoruba region of western Nigeria. In Yoruba legend, the
The Shattered Gourd
Language: en
Pages: 202
Authors: Moyosore Benjamin Okediji
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher:

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Drawing on the gourd in a Yoruba legend--which has come to symbolize in modern times the warfare and enslavement that have culminated in the black Diaspora--"Th
Vigilant Things
Language: en
Pages: 416
Authors: David T Doris
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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Winner of the 2012 Melville J. Herskovits award (African Studies Association) Throughout southwestern Nigeria, Yoruba men and women create objects called aale t
African Renaissance
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: M Okediji
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-09-15 - Publisher:

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African Renaissance: New Forms, Old Images in Yoruba Art describes, analyzes, and interprets the historical and cultural contexts of an African art renaissance
What Is African Art?
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Peter Probst
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-12-06 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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A history of the evolving field of African art. This book examines the invention and development of African art as an art historical category. It starts with a