 | African Renaissance : New Forms, Old Images in Yoruba Art African Renaissance: New Forms, Old Images in Yoruba Art describes, analyzes, and interprets the historical and cultural contexts of an African art renaissance using the twentieth- and twenty-first-century transformation of ancient Yoruba artistic heritage. Juxtaposing ancient and contemporary Yoruba art, Moyo Okediji defines this art history through the lens of colonialism, an experience that served to both destroy ancient art traditions and revive Yoruba art in the twentieth century. Moyo Okediji is professor of African visual cultures at the University of Texas, Austin. After receiving his PhD in African and African American art from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, he taught at several universities in the United States and was curator of African and Oceanic arts at the Denver Art Museum for a decade. His books include The Shattered Gourd: Yoruba Forms in Twentieth Century American Art , and Western Frontiers of African Art . He is also a studio artist and has exhibited in Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean. |
