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Carving wood, making history : the Fákéye family, modernity and Yoruba woodcarving
- Title
- Carving wood, making history : the Fákéye family, modernity and Yoruba woodcarving / Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà.
- Author
- Adésànyà, Adérónké Adésolá.
- Publication
- Trenton NJ : Africa World Press, 2012.
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- Description
- xv, 392 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Fákéye family
- Wood-carvers > Nigeria > History
- Wood-carving, Yoruba > Nigeria > Ila Orangun > 20th century
- Wood-carving, Yoruba > Nigeria > Ila Orangun > 21st century
- Sculpture, Yoruba > Nigeria > Ila Orangun > 20th century
- Sculpture, Yoruba > Nigeria > Ila Orangun > 21st century
- Yoruba (African people) > Civilization
- Yoruba (African people) > Social life and customs
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-358) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Aesthetic, form and significance of Yoruba woodcarving -- Masters of Yoruba woodcarving tradition -- Heirs of tradition, muses of modernity: the Fákéye lineage -- Visual narratives of Yoruba tradition and modernity, analysis of the works of the artists -- Mediating the past, present and future of Yoruba woodcarving.
- Call Number
- Sc D 12-357
- ISBN
- 9781592218790 (hard cover)
- 1592218792 (hard cover)
- 9781592218806 (pbk.)
- 1592218806 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2011038207
- OCLC
- 754144223
- Author
- Adésànyà, Adérónké Adésolá.
- Title
- Carving wood, making history : the Fákéye family, modernity and Yoruba woodcarving / Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà.
- Imprint
- Trenton NJ : Africa World Press, 2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-358) and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 12-357