Item #101493 Where Gods and Mortals Meet: Continuity and Renewal In Urhobo Art. Perkins Foss, Peter Ekeh, Foreword.
Where Gods and Mortals Meet: Continuity and Renewal In Urhobo Art
Where Gods and Mortals Meet: Continuity and Renewal In Urhobo Art
Where Gods and Mortals Meet: Continuity and Renewal In Urhobo Art
Where Gods and Mortals Meet: Continuity and Renewal In Urhobo Art
Where Gods and Mortals Meet: Continuity and Renewal In Urhobo Art
Where Gods and Mortals Meet: Continuity and Renewal In Urhobo Art
Where Gods and Mortals Meet: Continuity and Renewal In Urhobo Art

Where Gods and Mortals Meet: Continuity and Renewal In Urhobo Art

New York: Museum for African Art, 2004. Softbound. Black wraps with color illustrations on front and back, 151 pp. with over 100 color, and some bw plates. VG-. Item #101493
ISBN: 9780945802365

Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Museum for African Art, New York. Contents include: Fresh perspectives on Urhobo culture / Peter Ekeh -- An introduction to the Urhobo / Perkins Foss -- Urhobo art in the literature / Perkins Foss -- Urhobo art and religious belief / Michael Y. Nabofa -- Gifts from the gods: works in Copper Alloy from Urhobo medicine shrines / Perkins Foss -- Shrines of Esaba / G.G. Darah -- Iphri: Art for controlling aggression / Perkins Foss -- Obtaining an iphri / Perkins Foss -- How the Urhobo people see the world through art / Tanure Ojaide -- Huge, fearsome beauty: statuary for the edjo / Perkins Foss -- Agbogidi: a vision of an Urhobo shrine / Bruce Onobrakpeya -- Color symbolism in Urhobo art / Bruce Onobrakpeya -- Color symbolism in Urhobo art / Bruce Onobrakpeya -- Masks and masquerades: the enactment of the edjo / Perkins Foss -- Ohworhu: a spectacle for the spirits / Perkins Foss -- Bouquet of songs / Tanure Ojaide -- On marking and masking in the art of Bruce Onobrakpeya / John Picton -- Pride and preservation: Urhobo art and culture in the twenty-first century / Perkins Foss -- Appendix I: Praise poetry for iphri / Ikpama Aduri -- Appendix II: Ohworhu-Ame Festival: a chronicle / Chief Oghenegweke.

OCLC: 56554604

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