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Readings Unit 4

Week 8 – Sculpture Part I: Baule Spirit Spouses and Ghanaian Fantasy Coffins

Week 9 – Sculpture, Part II: Nigerian Aale and the cement sculptures of Sunday Jack Akpan

*PRESENT CHOSEN ARTWORKS AND THEME FOR FINAL PAPER VIA ZOOM

Vogel “Selections from Baule: African Art, Western Eyes”
Vogel, Susan. Baule: African Art, Western Eyes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. http://www.nmafa.si.edu/exhibits/baule/intro.htm.
Soppelsa “A Life Well Lived"
Soppelsa, Robert T. “A Life Well Lived: Fantasy Coffins of Kane Quaye.” African Arts 28, no. 2 (April 1, 1995): 74–75. https://doi.org/10.2307/3337231.
McNaughton, Patrick. “Vigilant Things"
Selections from McNaughton, Patrick. “Vigilant Things: On Thieves, Yoruba Anti-Aesthetics, and the Strange Fates of Ordinary Objects in Nigeria. David T. Doris. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011. 400 Pages, 77 Color Illustrations, 10 b/w Illus

Nicklin
Nicklin, Keith. “Cement Sculpture in Nigeria and Its Antecedents; Sunday Jack Akpan and African New Functional Art.” Raw Vision (blog), March 9, 2012.