Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba Ife History Power and Identity C 1300

The Resource Art and risk in ancient Yoruba : IFE history, power, and identity, c. 1300, Suzanne Preston Blier

Fine art and take a chance in ancient Yoruba : IFE history, power, and identity, c. 1300, Suzanne Preston Blier

Title

Fine art and gamble in ancient Yoruba

Championship residue

IFE history, power, and identity, c. 1300

Statement of responsibility

Suzanne Preston Blier

Creator

• Blier, Suzanne Preston

Bailiwick

• Art, Yoruba -- History
• Art, Yoruba -- Political aspects
• Artistic ability in engineering science -- Nigeria | Ife
• Gesellschaft
• Ife
• Ife (Nigeria) -- Antiquities
• Fine art and guild -- Nigeria | Ife
• Kreativität
• Kunst
• Kunstethnologie
• Nigeria
• Yoruba
• Ife (Nigeria) -- Civilization

Language

eng

Summary

"In this book, Suzanne Preston Blier examines the intersection of art, risk, and inventiveness in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife and the hitting ways that ancient Ife artworks inform society, politics, history, and religion. Yoruba art offers a unique lens into one of Africa's nigh important and least understood early civilizations, one whose celebrated arts have long been of involvement to local residents and Westerners akin because of their tour-de-forcefulness visual power and technical complexity. Amid the complementary subjects explored are questions of art making, art viewing, and aesthetics in the famed ancient Nigerian city-country, besides as the attendant risks and danger assumed by artists, patrons, and viewers akin in certain forms of subject matter and modes of portrayal, including unique genres of body marking, portraiture, animal symbolism, and regalia." -- Publisher's description

Cataloging source

IEN/DLC

http://library.link/vocab/creatorName

Blier, Suzanne Preston

Dewey number

730.96692801

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC phone call number

N7399.N5

LC particular number

B59 2015

Literary class

not fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

http://library.link/vocab/subjectName

• Art, Yoruba
• Art, Yoruba
• Art and guild
• Ife (Nigeria)
• Ife (Nigeria)
• Creative ability in engineering science
• Yoruba
• Kunst
• Kreativität
• Kunstethnologie
• Gesellschaft
• Ife
• Nigeria

Instantiates

• Art and risk in aboriginal Yoruba : IFE history, power, and identity, c. 1300

Publication

• New York, Cambridge University Press, 2015

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-554) and index

Carrier category

book

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

• text
• withal image
• cartographic image

Content type code

• txt
• sti
• cri

Content type MARC source

• rdacontent
• rdacontent
• rdacontent

Contents

Introduction: art, risk, and history. Fine art, risk, and identity. Making art: artists, subjects, materials, and patrons -- Experiencing art at Ife: sight, site, and viewership -- If looks could kill: aesthetics and political expression -- Embedding identity: marking the Ife body. Politics, representation, and regalia. A gallery of portrait heads: political art in early Ife -- Animal avatars: art, identity and the natural world -- Crowning glory: the art and politics of headgear -- Contesting with symbols: staffs of function, menhirs, and thrones

Control lawmaking

810586526

Dimensions

27 cm

Extent

xxiii, 574 pages

Isbn

9781108431040

Lccn

2012037813

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media blazon lawmaking

• northward

Other command number

40024832144

Other concrete details

illustrations (some in color)

Arrangement control number

(OCoLC)810586526

Publication

• New York, Cambridge University Press, 2015

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-554) and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

• text
• however image
• cartographic image

Content type code

• txt
• sti
• cri

Content blazon MARC source

• rdacontent
• rdacontent
• rdacontent

Contents

Introduction: fine art, risk, and history. Art, take a chance, and identity. Making fine art: artists, subjects, materials, and patrons -- Experiencing art at Ife: sight, site, and viewership -- If looks could kill: aesthetics and political expression -- Embedding identity: marking the Ife torso. Politics, representation, and regalia. A gallery of portrait heads: political art in early Ife -- Animal avatars: art, identity and the natural globe -- Crowning glory: the fine art and politics of headgear -- Battling with symbols: staffs of office, menhirs, and thrones

Control lawmaking

810586526

Dimensions

27 cm

Extent

xxiii, 574 pages

Isbn

9781108431040

Lccn

2012037813

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type lawmaking

• n

Other control number

40024832144

Other concrete details

illustrations (some in colour)

System control number

(OCoLC)810586526

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