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- catalog abstract ""The Shattered Gourd uses the lens of visual art to examine connections between the United States and the Yoruba region of western Nigeria." "In this book - the first to treat Yoruba forms while transcending the conventional emphasis on them as folk art, focusing instead on the high art tradition - Moyo Okediji uses nearly four dozen works to illustrate a broad thematic treatment combined with a detailed approach to individual African and African American artists. Incorporating works by such artists as Meta Warrick Fuller, Hale Woodruff, Aaron Douglas, Elizabeth Catlett, Ademola Olugebefola, Paul Keene, Jeff Donaldson, Howardena Pindell, Muneer Bahauddeen, Michelle Turner, Michael Harris, Winnie Owens-Hart, and John Biggers, the author invites the reader to envision what he describes as "the immense possibilities of the future as the twenty-first century embraces the twentieth in a primal dance of the diasporas," a future that heralds the advent of the global as a distinct movement in art, beyond postmodernism."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Yoruba forms in twentieth-century American art".
- catalog contributor b12812404.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""The Shattered Gourd uses the lens of visual art to examine connections between the United States and the Yoruba region of western Nigeria." "In this book - the first to treat Yoruba forms while transcending the conventional emphasis on them as folk art, focusing instead on the high art tradition - Moyo Okediji uses nearly four dozen works to illustrate a broad thematic treatment combined with a detailed approach to individual African and African American artists. Incorporating works by such artists as Meta Warrick Fuller, Hale Woodruff, Aaron Douglas, Elizabeth Catlett, Ademola Olugebefola, Paul Keene, Jeff Donaldson, Howardena Pindell, Muneer Bahauddeen, Michelle Turner, Michael Harris, Winnie Owens-Hart, and John Biggers, the author invites the reader to envision what he describes as "the immense possibilities of the future as the twenty-first century embraces the twentieth in a primal dance of the diasporas," a future that heralds the advent of the global as a distinct movement in art, beyond postmodernism."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-196) and index.".
- catalog extent "202 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0295981504 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Seattle : University of Washington Press,".
- catalog spatial "Nigeria".
- catalog subject "704.03/96073 21".
- catalog subject "African American art 20th century.".
- catalog subject "African American art African influences.".
- catalog subject "African American art Psychological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Art, Yoruba Nigeria Influence.".
- catalog subject "N6538.N5 O44 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "The shattered gourd : Yoruba forms in twentieth-century American art / Moyo Okediji.".
- catalog title "Yoruba forms in twentieth-century American art".
- catalog type "text".