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Art and risk in ancient Yoruba : Ife history, power, and identity, c. 1300
- Title
- Art and risk in ancient Yoruba : Ife history, power, and identity, c. 1300 / Suzanne Preston Blier.
- Author
- Blier, Suzanne Preston
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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- Description
- xxiii, 574 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 26 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-554) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Risk, art, and history -- Part I. Art, Risk, and Identity. 1. Making art : artists, subjects, materials, and patrons ; 2. Experiencing art at Ife : sight, site, and viewership ; 3. If looks could kill : aesthetics and political expression ; 4. Embedding identity : marking the Ife body -- Part II. Politics, Representation, and Regalia. 5. A gallery of portrait heads : political art in early Ife ; 6. Animal avatars : art, identity, and the natural world ; 7. Crowning glory : the art and politics of royal headgear ; 8. Battling with symbols : staffs of office, menhirs, and thrones -- Conclusions.
- Call Number
- Sc F 15-309
- ISBN
- 9781107021662 (hardback)
- 1107021669 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2012037813
- OCLC
- 810586526
- Author
- Blier, Suzanne Preston, author.
- Title
- Art and risk in ancient Yoruba : Ife history, power, and identity, c. 1300 / Suzanne Preston Blier.
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
- textstill imagecartographic image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-554) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc F 15-309