Senses in understandings of art.(first word)

From: African Arts | Date: June 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

In 2004 I was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on a project that has intrigued me for a long time--the role of the senses in understandings of African / African Diaspora art, and art in general. I am preparing a book on the subject. (1) My earliest encounter with this topic, though I did not know it at the time, dates to my very first attempt at African art "research"--my apprenticeship to the Yoruba artist Sanusi of the Adugbologe Workshop in Abeokuta, Nigeria in 1965, while I was a Peace Corps secondary school teacher. I did a second, mask-making apprenticeship with ...

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