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Yoruba art and language : seeking the African in African art /
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 primarly according to the standards and principles of Western aesthetics. In thi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : what is African in African art studies?
- Orí : no òrìṣà blesses a person without the consent of his/her orí
- Àṣẹ : the empowered word must come to pass
- Ọṣun : the corpulent woman whose waist two arms cannot encompass
- Òrúnmìlà : henceforth, Ifá priests will ride horses
- We greet aso before we greet its wearer
- Àkó : re/minding is the antidote for forgetfulness
- Ilé-ifè : the place where the day dawns
- Yorùbá aesthetics : ìwà, ìwà is what we are searching for, ìwà
- Tomorrow, today's elder sibling.