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The shattered gourd : Yoruba forms in twentieth-century American art / Moyo Okediji.
Fine Arts Library N6538.N5 O44 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Okediji, Moyosore B. (Moyosore Benjamin)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American art--20th century.
- African American art.
- African American art--Psychological aspects.
- African American art--African influences.
- Art, Yoruba--Nigeria--Influence.
- Art, Yoruba.
- Psychological aspects.
- Nigeria.
- Physical Description:
- 202 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- 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--"The Shattered Gourd" uses the lens of visual art to examine connections between the United States and the Yoruba region of western Nigeria. 47 illus.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Ethiopia Awakening 3
- 2 What a Carving Re-members 18
- 3 Harlem Nostalgia 32
- 4 The Double-Headed Axe 63
- 5 (Re)visioning Africa 88
- 6 When Memory Fails 111
- 7 Crossroads to Amnesia 139
- 8 Conclusion: Spring and Renewal 174.
- Notes:
- "A Samuel and Althea Stroum book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-196) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0295981504
- OCLC:
- 50958887
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