African vodun : art, psychology, and power

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African vodun : art, psychology, and power

Suzanne Preston Blier

University of Chicago Press, 1995

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-461) and index

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巻冊次

: cloth ISBN 9780226058580

内容説明

In this study, Blier examines the artworks of the contemporary "vodun" cultures of southern Benin and Togo in West Africa, as well as the related "voudou" traditions of the Americas. Blier employs theoretically sophisticated psychological, anthropological and art historical approaches to explore the contrasts inherent in the "vodun" arts - commoners versus royalty, popular versus elite, "low" art versus "high". She examines the relation between art and the slave trade, the psychological dynamics of artistic expression, the significance of the body in sculptural expression and indigenous perceptions of the psyche.

目次

Acknowledgments Linguistic Note Introduction: Ties that Bind: The Psychology and Power of Art 1: Vodun Art, Social History, and the Slave Trade 2: Audiences, Artists, and Sculptural Activators 3: Design in Desire: Transference and the Arts of [actual symbol not reproducible] 4: Bodies and Being: Anatomy, Anamnesis, and Representation 5: The I and Not-I in Artistic Expressions of the Self 6: Alchemy and Art: Matter, Mind, and Sculptural Meaning 7: Surface Parergon and the Arts of Suturing 8: The Force of Genre: Sculptural Tension and Typology 9: Power, Art, and the Mysteries of Rule Conclusions, Concomitants, and Comparisons Appendix: Collections and Stylistic Features Sources Notes Bibliography Index
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780226058603

内容説明

Beads, bones, rags, straw, leather, pottery, fur, feathers and blood - these are the raw materials of "vodun" artworks. As objects of fury and force, these works are intended to protect and empower people and cultures that have long been oppressed. In this major study Suzanne Preston Blier examines the artworks of the contemporary "vodun" cultures of southern Benin and Togo in West Africa as well as the related "voudou" traditions of Haiti, New Orleans, and historic Salem, Massachusetts. Blier employs a variety of theoretical psychological, anthropological, and art historical approaches to explore the contrasts inherent in the "vodun" arts - commoners versus royalty, popular versus elite, "low" art versus "high." She examines the relation between art and the slave trade, the psychological dynamics of artistic expression, the significance of the body in sculptural expression, and indigenous perceptions of the psyche. Throughout, Blier seeks to pushe African art history to a new height of cultural awareness that recognizes the complexity of traditional African societies as it acknowledges the role of social power in shaping aesthetics and meaning generally. This book should be of critical interest not only to those concerned with African, African American, and Caribbean art, but also to anthropologists, African diaspora scholars, students of comparative religion and comparative psychology.

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