The Shattered Gourd
Subtitle: Yoruba Forms in Twentieth Century American Art (Samuel and Althea Stroum Book)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: June 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780295981505
Subjects: Art of indigenous peoples; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; 20th Century Art; Special Subjects In Art; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Nigeria; African; American - General; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); Fine Arts; History - General; 20th century; African American art; African influences; Art, Yoruba; Psychological aspects
Description: "The Shattered Gourd uses the lens of visual art to examine connections between the United States and the Yoruba region of western Nigeria." "In this book - the first to treat Yoruba forms while transcending the conventional emphasis on them as folk art, focusing instead on the high art tradition - Moyo Okediji uses nearly four dozen works to illustrate a broad thematic treatment combined with a detailed approach to individual African and African American artists. Incorporating works by such artists as Meta Warrick Fuller, Hale Woodruff, Aaron Douglas, Elizabeth Catlett, Ademola Olugebefola, Paul Keene, Jeff Donaldson, Howardena Pindell, Muneer Bahauddeen, Michelle Turner, Michael Harris, Winnie Owens-Hart, and John Biggers, the author invites the reader to envision what he describes as "the immense possibilities of the future as the twenty-first century embraces the twentieth in a primal dance of the diasporas," a future that heralds the advent of the global as a distinct movement in art, beyond postmodernism."--Jacket.