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- catalog contributor b2148716.
- catalog created "[1963]".
- catalog date "1963".
- catalog date "[1963]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[1963]".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 10.".
- catalog description "Glossary -- Map of Nigeria -- The ancient arts -- Nigeria's share of Africas' past -- How African art came to Europe -- The antiquity of painting in Africa -- The oldest African sculpture -- The fortunate deposition of the Nok culture -- Arts lost without trace -- Stylistic unity and diversity in Nok art -- Nok sculpture and its descendants -- A missing millennium in art history -- The probable antiquity of Yoruba culture -- The primacy of Ife in Yoruba religion -- The many-sided artistic accomplishment of Ife -- Deranged myths and displaced shrines -- Conjectural dating of the Ife antiquities -- Nok and Ife sculpture as close relations -- Nok and Ife: direct or collateral kinship? -- Benin art: terra firma and armature -- Benin court style and Bini tribal style -- A partial reconstruction of indigenous Bini culture -- The early kingship at Benin: tendencies towards 'colonialism' and absolutism -- How the Ife style came to Benin and the brief survival of naturalism -- ".
- catalog description "Of force, energy, or power as the stuff of nature, and man's spiritual control of it -- The channels of force -- Dance and the mask in the generation of force -- Increase as the subject of tribal sculpture and its expression in the curves of growth -- Nigeria's Sibylline books.".
- catalog description "The middle or plaque period as the foundation of Benin art history -- Inspiration and pedestrianism in the Benin plaques -- The supply position of bronze as a factor in the increasing weightiness of Benin art -- Middle-period heads: classical stereotypes and the art of support -- Benin court art as a victory of materialsim over faith -- The late period at Benin: inflation sets in -- The 'Udo style' of bronze-casting -- Benin ivories: four centuries of sustained excellence -- The lower NIger bronze industry mystery -- The poetic quality of lower Niger art -- Plates 1-76 -- The recent period -- The ant and the woodcarver: or the balance of destruction and regeneration -- Genius and mediocrity: a reciproccing mechanism of change in the carver's art -- On some implications of cycles -- Naming the tribal artist -- Of Kobadoku, Olowe, Agbonbiofe, Bamgboye, Arowogun, Azume and Ochai -- On the tribality of African art -- Concerning the nature of things -- ".
- catalog extent "124 p.".
- catalog issued "1963".
- catalog issued "[1963]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, Praeger".
- catalog spatial "Nigeria.".
- catalog subject "730.9669".
- catalog subject "NB1097.N5 F2".
- catalog subject "Sculpture, Nigerian.".
- catalog subject "Sculpture, Primitive Nigeria.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Glossary -- Map of Nigeria -- The ancient arts -- Nigeria's share of Africas' past -- How African art came to Europe -- The antiquity of painting in Africa -- The oldest African sculpture -- The fortunate deposition of the Nok culture -- Arts lost without trace -- Stylistic unity and diversity in Nok art -- Nok sculpture and its descendants -- A missing millennium in art history -- The probable antiquity of Yoruba culture -- The primacy of Ife in Yoruba religion -- The many-sided artistic accomplishment of Ife -- Deranged myths and displaced shrines -- Conjectural dating of the Ife antiquities -- Nok and Ife sculpture as close relations -- Nok and Ife: direct or collateral kinship? -- Benin art: terra firma and armature -- Benin court style and Bini tribal style -- A partial reconstruction of indigenous Bini culture -- The early kingship at Benin: tendencies towards 'colonialism' and absolutism -- How the Ife style came to Benin and the brief survival of naturalism -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Of force, energy, or power as the stuff of nature, and man's spiritual control of it -- The channels of force -- Dance and the mask in the generation of force -- Increase as the subject of tribal sculpture and its expression in the curves of growth -- Nigeria's Sibylline books.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The middle or plaque period as the foundation of Benin art history -- Inspiration and pedestrianism in the Benin plaques -- The supply position of bronze as a factor in the increasing weightiness of Benin art -- Middle-period heads: classical stereotypes and the art of support -- Benin court art as a victory of materialsim over faith -- The late period at Benin: inflation sets in -- The 'Udo style' of bronze-casting -- Benin ivories: four centuries of sustained excellence -- The lower NIger bronze industry mystery -- The poetic quality of lower Niger art -- Plates 1-76 -- The recent period -- The ant and the woodcarver: or the balance of destruction and regeneration -- Genius and mediocrity: a reciproccing mechanism of change in the carver's art -- On some implications of cycles -- Naming the tribal artist -- Of Kobadoku, Olowe, Agbonbiofe, Bamgboye, Arowogun, Azume and Ochai -- On the tribality of African art -- Concerning the nature of things -- ".
- catalog title "Nigerian images : the splendor of African sculpture. Photos. by Herbert List.".
- catalog type "text".