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Where gods and mortals meet : continuity and renewal in Urhobo art / edited by Perkins Foss ; with foreword by Peter Ekeh ; contributions by G.G. Darah ... [et al.]; and appendices by Ikpama Aduri, Chief Oghenegweke.
- Title
- Where gods and mortals meet : continuity and renewal in Urhobo art / edited by Perkins Foss ; with foreword by Peter Ekeh ; contributions by G.G. Darah ... [et al.]; and appendices by Ikpama Aduri, Chief Oghenegweke.
- Publication
- New York : Museum for African Art ; Ghent : Snoeck ; New York : Available through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, c2004.
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- Description
- 151 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (chiefly col.); 31 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Continuity and renewal in Urhobo art
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs
- Note
- Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Museum for African Art, New York.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-148).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Fresh perspectives on Urhobo culture / Peter Ekeh -- An introduction to the Urhobo / Perkins Foss -- Urhobo art in the literature / Perkins Foss -- Urhobo art and religious belief / Michael Y. Nabofa -- Gifts from the gods: works in Copper Alloy from Urhobo medicine shrines / Perkins Foss -- Shrines of Esaba / G. G. Darah -- Iphri: Art for controlling aggression / Perkins Foss -- Obtaining an iphri / Perkins Foss -- How the Urhobo people see the world through art / Tanure Ojaide -- Huge, fearsome beauty: statuary for the edjo / Perkins Foss -- Agbogidi: a vision of an Urhobo shrine / Bruce Onobrakpeya -- Color symbolism in Urhobo art / Bruce Onobrakpeya -- Color symbolism in Urhobo art / Bruce Onobrakpeya -- Masks and masquerades: the enactment of the edjo / Perkins Foss -- Ohworhu: a spectacle for the spirits / Perkins Foss -- Bouquet of songs / Tanure Ojaide -- On marking and masking in the art of Bruce Onobrakpeya / John Picton -- Pride and preservation: Urhobo art and culture in the twenty-first century / Perkins Foss -- Appendix I: Praise poetry for iphri / Ikpama Aduri -- Appendix II: Ohworhu-Ame Festival: a chronicle / Chief Oghenegweke.
- ISBN
- 0945802366 (pbk.)
- 9780945802365 (pbk.)
- 9053495061 (cloth)
- 9789053495063 (cloth)
- LCCN
- ^^2004102120
- OCLC
- 56554604
- SCSB-9901579
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library