Rowland Abiodun

Rowland O. Abiodun, b. 1941, bụ prọfesọ onye America-American na onye ode akwụkwọ mara amara maka ntinye aka ya na ngalaba mmụta nka nke Africa, ọkachasị Art Yoruba. Ọ bụ ugbu a John C. Newton Prọfesọ nke Art, History of Art, na Black Studies na Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts. O nwetara BA na Fine Arts na 1965 na Mahadum Ahmadu Bello, Zaria, Nigeria, na MA ya na Art History na Mahadum Toronto. Amụrụ na Owo Nigeria,  Abiodun edeela ọtụtụ ihe gbasara ọrụ nka nke ndị Yoruba nke Naijiria na Benin nke oge a mepụtara. Abiodun bụ John C. Newton Prọfesọ Art, History of Art, and Black Studies na Amherst College .    Ọ na-eje ozi dị ka onye nduzi nke African Studies Association  ma nọdụ na ndụmọdụ ndụmọdụ maka Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art . 

Abiodun ewepụtala ọtụtụ ihe ngosi nka nka ndị Africa ama ama na United States. Ihe ngosi ya Artist dị ka Explorer: African Art sitere na mkpokọta Walt Disney-Tishman, nke egosiri na National Geographic Society's Explorer Hall, rụrụ afọ abụọ tupu Smithsonian nweta mkpokọta Disney-Tishman.   Ihe ngosi Yoruba: Centuries of Africa Art and Thought nke ya na Henry John Drewal, John Pemberton III na Allen Wardwell jikọtara ya gụnyere ọrụ nka sitere na Lagos na Ife, ụfọdụ n'ime ha na-ahụtụbeghị mbụ na United States tupu e gosipụta ya. na Center for African Art na Art Institute of Chicago .  

N'afọ 2011, Abiodun nwetara onyinye nturu ugo nke ACASA Leadership Award, ihe nrite maka "onye ihe ọ rụzuru na-egosipụta nke ọma n'ịmụ ihe gbasara nka na nka nke Africa na/ma ọ bụ African Diasporic art na/ma ọ bụ onye onyinye ọhụrụ na ọhụụ ya kwalitere ubi ahụ."  

 Akwụkwọ akụkọ 

 Art na Asụsụ Yoruba: Ịchọ onye Africa na Art Africa. Cambridge University Press, 2014. Abiodun, R. (2014). Yoruba Art and Language: Seeking the African in African Art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781107239074
 Ihe na-eso isii kariri asaa: Ịghọta Art Africa. British Museum Department of Ethnography, 1995. 

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