Art and Oracle : African Art and Rituals of Divination,9780810965454

Art and Oracle : African Art and Rituals of Divination

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ISBN13: 9780810965454
ISBN10: 0810965453
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-04-01
Publisher(s): Harry N Abrams
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Summary

In many of sub-Saharan Africa's culturally diverse societies, divination rituals -- and the creative forms of expression designed to advance these quests -- continue to profoundly influence decisions that affect the future. The catalogue for an exhibition organized by the Rietberg Museum in Zurich and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, this publication marks the first time many of the classic icons of African art history have been considered as the products of a common source of inspiration, enabling the reader to appreciate the complex relationship between artistic imagination and ritual power.

Exploring such divinatory systems as those of the Azande, Luba, Yaka, Yoruba, and Malagasy, Art and Oracle takes a cross-cultural look at 200 works, 50 pictured in full color, from the world's premier collections of African art, considering them both for their artistry and as mediums through which divine insights may be revealed.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
4(6)
Director's Foreword
6(1)
Philippe de Montebello
Introduction
7(3)
Alisa LaGamma
Map of Sub-Saharan Africa
8(2)
Divination in Sub-Saharan Africa
10(13)
John Pemberton III
Catalogue
Oracular Sculpture: Figurative Divination Instruments
23(13)
Visual Metaphors: If a Divination Instruments
36(4)
Dynamic Devices: Kinetic Oracles
40(6)
Visual Commentaries: Sets of Divination Signs
46(4)
Invoking the Spirits: Musical Devices
50(3)
Emblems of Enlightenment and Power: Diviners' Insignias
53(7)
Empowering the Individual: Diviners' Prescriptions
60(8)
The Iconography of Divination: Monuments of Divine Insight
68(8)
Checklist of the Exhibition 76(3)
Bibliography 79(1)
Photograph Credits 80

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