ISBN:
9781107021662
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1107021669
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9781108431040
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1108431046
Language:
English
Pages:
XXIII, 574 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
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27 cm
Keywords:
Geschichte 1250-1350
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Yoruba
;
Kunst
;
Kultur
;
Nigeria
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Art, Yoruba / History
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Art, Yoruba / Political aspects
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Art and society / Nigeria / Ife
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Ife (Nigeria) / Antiquities
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Ife (Nigeria) / Civilization
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Creative ability in technology / Nigeria / Ife
;
Antiquities
;
Art and society
;
Art, Yoruba
;
Civilization
;
Creative ability in technology
;
Nigeria / Ife
;
History
;
Nigeria
;
Yoruba
;
Kunst
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte 1250-1350
Abstract:
"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." -- Publisher's description
Note:
Introduction: risk, art, and history. - 1. Making art: artists, subjects, materials, and patrons.- 2. Experiencing art at Ife: sight, site, and viewership. - 3. If looks could kill: aesthetics and political expression. - 4. Embedding identity: marking the Ife body. - 5. A gallery of portrait heads: political art in early Ife. - 6. Animal avatars: art, identity and the natural world. - 7. Crowning glory: the art and politics of royal headgear. - 8. Battling with symbols: staffs of office, menhirs, and thrones.
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