Carving wood, making history
Subtitle: the Fákéye family, modernity and Yoruba woodcarving
By: Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Trenton NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781592218790; 9781592218806
Subjects: Yoruba Sculpture; Wood-carving, Yoruba; Yoruba (African people); Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Aesthetic, form and significance of Yoruba woodcarving; title: Masters of Yoruba woodcarving tradition; title: Heirs of tradition, muses of modernity: the Fákéye lineage; title: A lineage of woodcarvers: visual narratives of Yoruba tradition and modernity; title: Mediating the past, present and future of Yoruba woodcarving.