The Shattered Gourd: Yoruba Forms in Twentieth Century American ArtUniversity of Washington Press, 2012 - 256 pàgines The Shattered Gourd uses the lens of visual art to examine connections between the United States and the Yoruba region of western Nigeria. In Yoruba legend, the sacred Calabash of Being contained the Water of Life; when the gourd was shattered, its fragments were scattered over the ground, death invaded the world, and imperfection crept into human affairs. In more modern times, the shattered gourd has symbolized the warfare and enslavement that culminated in the black diasporas. The "re-membering" of the gourd is represented by the survival of people of African origin all over the Americas, and, in this volume, by their rediscovery of African art forms on the diaspora soil of the United States. Twentieth-century African American artists employing Yoruba images in their work have gone from protest art to the exploration and celebration of the self and the community. But because the social, economic, and political context of African art forms differs markedly from that of American culture, critical contradictions between form and meaning often appear in African American works that use African forms. 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. |
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... Calabash of Being contained the Water of Life ; when the gourd was shattered , its fragments were scattered over the ground , death invaded the world , and imperfection crept into human affairs . In more modern times , the shattered ...
... calabash with its ritual water was also there . They asked Death what it was about the calabash and the water that scared and deterred him . He said he could not say specifically , but that there was something unsettling in the ...
... calabash , and how the shattering of that calabash has brought anomie into the world . In a metaphor that links mythology with history , the impact of the trans - Atlantic slave trade , colonization , and neocolonization on the body of ...
... calabash , the metaphor to best describe Yoruba culture as it moved into the twentieth century is that of a shattered gourd . Arowoogun's Atahun Atejo precisely renders the shatter- ing of that gourd . I examine this monumental panel ...
... calabash , capturing hegemonic relationships in nineteenth- and early twentieth - century Yoruba society . Starting from the first half of the nineteenth century , people represented as slaves in Arowoogun's panel found themselves sold ...
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The DoubleHeaded Axe | 63 |
Revisioning Africa | 88 |
When Memory Fails | 111 |
Crossroads to Amnesia | 139 |
Spring and Renewal | 174 |