Suzanne Preston Blier
Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba
Suzanne Preston Blier
Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba
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This book examines the intersection of art, risk and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife.
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This book examines the intersection of art, risk and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 600
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 32mm
- Gewicht: 1112g
- ISBN-13: 9781108431040
- ISBN-10: 1108431046
- Artikelnr.: 50022749
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 600
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 32mm
- Gewicht: 1112g
- ISBN-13: 9781108431040
- ISBN-10: 1108431046
- Artikelnr.: 50022749
Suzanne Preston Blier is Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, Massachusetts. Her first book, The Anatomy of Architecture: Ontology and Metaphor in Batammaliba Architectural Expression (Cambridge, 1987) won the Arnold Rubin prize. Her second book, African Vodun: Art, Psychology, and Power (1995), won the Charles Rufus Morey Prize. Other books include African Royal Art: The Majesty of Form (1998), Butabu: Adobe Architecture in West Africa (2003) and Art of the Senses: Masterpieces from the William and Bertha Teel Collection (2004). She was a member of the Collège de France International Scientific and Strategic Committee (2011-13) and is on the board of the College Art Association. Her past fellowships include CASVA (Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, the National Gallery of Art), John Simon Guggenheim, the Radcliffe Institute, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), Fulbright Senior Research, Social Science Research Council, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the Getty Center for the Study of Art.
Introduction: art
risk
and creativity; Part I. Art
Risk
and Identity: 1. Art making: artists
subjects
technologies
and media; 2. Experiencing art: sight
site
and perspectives of viewing; 3. If looks could kill: aesthetics and political expression; 4. Embedding identity: marking the Ife body; Part II. Politics
Representation
and Regalia: 5. A gallery of portrait heads: political art; 6. Animal avatars: art
identity
and the natural world; 7. Crowning glory: the art and politics of headgear; 8. Battling with symbols: scepters
staffs
and seats; Conclusions.
risk
and creativity; Part I. Art
Risk
and Identity: 1. Art making: artists
subjects
technologies
and media; 2. Experiencing art: sight
site
and perspectives of viewing; 3. If looks could kill: aesthetics and political expression; 4. Embedding identity: marking the Ife body; Part II. Politics
Representation
and Regalia: 5. A gallery of portrait heads: political art; 6. Animal avatars: art
identity
and the natural world; 7. Crowning glory: the art and politics of headgear; 8. Battling with symbols: scepters
staffs
and seats; Conclusions.
Introduction: art
risk
and creativity; Part I. Art
Risk
and Identity: 1. Art making: artists
subjects
technologies
and media; 2. Experiencing art: sight
site
and perspectives of viewing; 3. If looks could kill: aesthetics and political expression; 4. Embedding identity: marking the Ife body; Part II. Politics
Representation
and Regalia: 5. A gallery of portrait heads: political art; 6. Animal avatars: art
identity
and the natural world; 7. Crowning glory: the art and politics of headgear; 8. Battling with symbols: scepters
staffs
and seats; Conclusions.
risk
and creativity; Part I. Art
Risk
and Identity: 1. Art making: artists
subjects
technologies
and media; 2. Experiencing art: sight
site
and perspectives of viewing; 3. If looks could kill: aesthetics and political expression; 4. Embedding identity: marking the Ife body; Part II. Politics
Representation
and Regalia: 5. A gallery of portrait heads: political art; 6. Animal avatars: art
identity
and the natural world; 7. Crowning glory: the art and politics of headgear; 8. Battling with symbols: scepters
staffs
and seats; Conclusions.