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Author Blier, Suzanne Preston.

Title Art and risk in ancient Yoruba : Ife history, power, and identity, c. 1300 / Suzanne Preston Blier.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: art, risk, and creativity. Art, risk, and identity. Art making : artists, subjects, technologies and media -- Experiencing art : sight, site, and perspectives of viewing -- If looks could kill : aesthetics and political expression -- Embedding identity : marking the Ife body. Politics, representation, and regalia. A gallery of portrait heads : political art -- Animal avatars : art, identity and the natural world -- Crowning glory : the art and politics of headgear -- Battling with symbols : scepters, staffs, and seats.
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Subject Art, Yoruba -- History.
Art, Yoruba.
History.
Art, Yoruba -- Political aspects.
Art and society -- Nigeria -- Ife.
Art and society.
Nigeria -- Ife.
Ife (Nigeria) -- Antiquities.
Ife (Nigeria) -- Civilization.
Creative ability in technology -- Nigeria -- Ife.
Creative ability in technology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Blier, Suzanne Preston. Art and risk in ancient Yoruba 9781107021662 (DLC) 2012037813 (OCoLC)810586526
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