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Axé Bahia : the power of art in an Afro-Brazilian metropolis

Title: Axé Bahia : the power of art in an Afro-Brazilian metropolis / Patrick A. Polk, Roberto Conduru, Sabrina Gledhill, and Randal Johnson, editors ; with essays by Scott Alves Barton, Sarah K. Chenault, Kimberly L. Cleveland, Roberto Conduru, Christopher Dunn, Cécile Fromont, Sabrina Gledhill, Ana Paula Höfling, Randal Johnson, Vanda Machado, Lucas Marques, J. Lorand Matory, Paulo Miguez, Patrick A. Polk, Anadelia Romo, Roger Sansi, Heather Shirey, Jeri Bernadette Williams.
Publication: Los Angeles : Fowler Museum at UCLA, [2018]

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Description

288 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm

Subjects

Genre/Form

Illustrated works.
Essays.
Exhibition catalogs.

Note

"Published with the assistance of The Getty Foundation."

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

Text in English.

Contents

Introduction, "Have You Been to Bahia?" / Patrick A. Polk -- Becoming the Black Rome: Bahia, Africa, and the African Atlantic / Cécile Fromont -- The Slave Ship: Castro Alves and Hansen Bahia / Sabrina Gledhill -- The Iemanjá Festival / Sabrina Gledhill -- Candomblé: Making the Saint, Making History, and Making Spirited Things / J. Lorand Matory -- Lavagem do Bonfim / Sabrina Gledhill -- Adenor Gondim and the Irmandade de Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte / Scott Alves Barton -- To Have Axé-To Be Axé / Roger Sansi -- Visiting the Forge of Ogum: The Iron Work of José Adário dos Santos / Lucas Marques -- Art, Tradition, and Ancestry: The Wisdom of Tia Detinha / Vanda Machado -- What Does the Baiana Really Have? The Baiana and Afro-Brazilian Identity / Heather Shirley -- Bound in Beauty: Creole Jewely in Bahia / Sarah K. Chenault -- Capoeiras of Bahia / Ana Paula Höfling -- Reinventing Roots: From Athens to Africa in the Making of Salvador's Identity / Anadelia Romo -- Jorge Amado and Friends / Randal Johnson -- Seeking the Orixás in Brazilian Popular Music / Christopher Dunn -- Afro-Revels: Notes on the Black Presence in Salvador da Bahia's Carnaval / Paulo Miguez -- The Art of J. Cunha and his 'Códice' (Codex) / Jeri Bernadette Williams -- Candomblé as Artistic Inspiration: Syncretic Approaches / Kimberly L. Cleveland -- Caetano Dias / Roberto Conduru -- Mário Cravo Neto's Literal and Metaphorical Bahia / Sabrina Gledhill and Roberto Conduru -- Ayrson Heráclito / Robert Conduru -- Confronting the World with Art, Beauty, and Axé / Roberto Conduru -- Goya Lopes: Sentidos Afro-Baianos / Sabrina Gledhill.

Call Number

Sc+ F 18-51

ISBN

9780990762652
0990762653

LCCN

2017039441

OCLC

1001364114

Title

Axé Bahia : the power of art in an Afro-Brazilian metropolis / Patrick A. Polk, Roberto Conduru, Sabrina Gledhill, and Randal Johnson, editors ; with essays by Scott Alves Barton, Sarah K. Chenault, Kimberly L. Cleveland, Roberto Conduru, Christopher Dunn, Cécile Fromont, Sabrina Gledhill, Ana Paula Höfling, Randal Johnson, Vanda Machado, Lucas Marques, J. Lorand Matory, Paulo Miguez, Patrick A. Polk, Anadelia Romo, Roger Sansi, Heather Shirey, Jeri Bernadette Williams.

Publisher

Los Angeles : Fowler Museum at UCLA, [2018]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

Text in English.

Place of Publication

United States California Los Angeles.

China Hong Kong.

Added Author

Polk, Patrick Arthur, editor.

Conduru, Roberto, editor.

Gledhill, Sabrina, editor.

Johnson, Randal, 1948- editor.

Fowler Museum at UCLA, organizer, host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc+ F 18-51

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