Listed in: Art and the History of Art, as ARHA-353 | Black Studies, as BLST-315
Formerly listed as: BLST-42
Rowland O. Abiodun (Section 01)
(Offered as BLST 315 [A] and ARHA 353) Through a contrastive analysis of the religious and artistic modes of expression in three West African societies—the Asanti of the Guinea Coast, and the Yoruba and Igbo peoples of Nigeria—the course will explore the nature and logic of symbols in an African cultural context. We shall address the problem of cultural symbols in terms of African conceptions of performance and the creative play of the imagination in ritual acts, masked festivals, music, dance, oral histories, and the visual arts as they provide the means through which cultural heritage and identity are transmitted and preserved, while, at the same time, being the means for innovative responses to changing social circumstances.
Spring semester. Professor Abiodun.
Section 01
M 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM COOP 101
W 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM COOP 101
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yoruba art and language: seeking the African in African Art | Cambridge University Press, 2014 | Abiodun, Rowland | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Igbo Arts: Community and Cosmos | Museum of Cultural Art, 1984 | Cole, Herbert | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Art of the Dogon: selections from the Lester Wunderman collection | Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988 | Ezra, Kate | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Art and Religion in Africa | Wellington House, 1996 | Hackett, Rosalind | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Osun across the waters: A Yoruba goddess in Africa and the Americas | Indiana University Press, 2001 | Murphy, Joseph & Sanford, Mei-Mei | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Efuru | Heinemann, 1978 | Nwapa, Flora | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Death and the king's horseman | Norton, 2002 | Soyinka, Wole | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| A short guide to writing about art | Pearson, 2008 | Barnet, Sylvan | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| City of 201 gods | Univ. of California Press, 2011 | Olupona, Jacob K. | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Things Fall Apart | Penguin Books, 2017 | Achebe, Chinua | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Yoruba:Nine Centuries of African Art & Thought | Center for African Art in Assoc. w/H.N. Abrams, 1989 | Drewel, Henry, Pemberton, John & Abiodun, Rowland | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.