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“One’s Head Is One’s Creator”: The Interconnectedness of Word and Image in Yòrùbá Art
Babatunde Lawal
Description: Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
Before the twentieth century, an emphasis on Eurocentric theories led many Western anthropologists and art historians to regard the stylized forms of indigenous African art as “primitive” and a failed attempt to imitate nature...
Author
Babatunde Lawal
PublisherArt Institute of Chicago
Copyright© 2020 by The Art Institute of Chicago
Related print edition pages: pp.188-195
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00321.14
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22886
Chapter subject tags:Yoruba (African people)Art, YorubaCosmologyRites and ceremoniesMasks, African

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