Author: Ekpo Eyo
Publisher: Chinazor Onianwah
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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The Federal Republic of Nigeria maintains a rich artistic legacy that is more than two thousand years old. As such, it provides some interesting counterpoints to Western art history. Nigeria's ancient Nok art, for example, predated the golden age of Greece, and the exquisite bronzes of lgbo Ukwu (9th-10th C), Ife (12th-15th C), and Benin (15th-19th C) compare favorably to European traditions. Furthermore, the art of Benin thrived under the patronage of a single, unbroken dynasty during a time when many European governments rose and fell.Yet, for many reasons, the Western world would not recognize this artistic heritage until modern times. In this volume, Ekpo Eyo explains the prirnitivist viewpoint that once dominated the Western perception of African art and recalls the efforts of certain more open-minded individuals from Nigeria's colonial past who, in their efforts to collect, preserve, and present important sculptures and other artworks, were instrumental in founding the country's first museums. Their successor, today's National Commission for Museums and Monuments, has collected many additional works from their original settings, placing them in the limelight of the world through publications and museum exhibitions, to which the author has contributed much throughout his career. Eyo therefore discusses Nigerian art in the broader context of the world's art history, arguing that the art of Nigeria is fundamentally a testament to universal human creativity. From Shrines to Showcases: Masterpieces of Nigerian Art includes examples selected from all major regions of the country, spanning the distant past to the modern age, which are to be considered amongst the greatest artistic achievements of humanity.

Author: Ekpo Eyo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789788204091
Category : Sculpture, Nigerian
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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Author: John Povey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Author: Chinedu Christian Chukueggu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Author: Cornelius Oyeleke Adepegba
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Author: Ekpo Eyo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Author: Janet L. Stanley
Publisher: Hans Zell Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 624

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Author: Suzanne Preston Blier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107729173
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 793

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In this book, Suzanne Preston Blier examines the intersection of art, risk and creativity in early African arts from the Yoruba center of Ife and the striking ways that ancient Ife artworks inform society, politics, history and religion. Yoruba art offers a unique lens into one of Africa's most important and least understood early civilizations, one whose historic arts have long been of interest to local residents and Westerners alike because of their tour-de-force visual power and technical complexity. Among the complementary subjects explored are questions of art making, art viewing and aesthetics in the famed ancient Nigerian city-state, as well as the attendant risks and danger assumed by artists, patrons and viewers alike in certain forms of subject matter and modes of portrayal, including unique genres of body marking, portraiture, animal symbolism and regalia. This volume celebrates art, history and the shared passion and skill with which the remarkable artists of early Ife sought to define their past for generations of viewers.

Author: Ekpo Eyo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sculpture, Nigerian
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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Author: Dele Jẹgẹdẹ
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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