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J.B. Murray and the Scripts and Spirit Forms of Africa
Licia Clifton-JamesMaude Southwell Wahlman
其他書名
Making the Connections
出版Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022-02-17
主題Art / Techniques / PaintingArt / Folk & Outsider ArtArt / Individual Artists / Monographs
ISBN15275800169781527580015
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1_5fEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Providing an excellent example of why folk artists can be appreciated as carriers of knowledge, even if they are unaware of it, this book could change the ways we understand and appreciate American folk arts. Connecting a sharecropper from Georgia in the Southern United States to a protector and healer in Touba, Senegal, West Africa, the holy city of Mouridism, and the final resting place of its founder, Shaikh Ahmadou Bàmba Mbàcke, it makes an interesting link while examining the cultural aspects of two very different and yet similar paths of life. Historians and art historians alike will find this investigation of African American art and folk culture both interesting and insightful. Not only does this book trace the characteristics of art through the African Diaspora, but it also traces Islam through those same diasporic transportations of colonial exploration and slavery.