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Suzanne Preston Blier

African Vodun

Art, Psychology, and Power

486 pages, 8 color plates, 161 halftones, 4 maps  7 x 10  © 1994

Paper $48.00

ISBN: 9780226058603   Published December 1996

Acknowledgments
Linguistic Note
Introduction: Ties that Bind: The Psychology and Power of Art
1: Vodun Art, Social History, and the Slave Trade
2: Audiences, Artists, and Sculptural Activators
3: Design in Desire: Transference and the Arts of [actual symbol not reproducible]
4: Bodies and Being: Anatomy, Anamnesis, and Representation
5: The I and Not-I in Artistic Expressions of the Self
6: Alchemy and Art: Matter, Mind, and Sculptural Meaning
7: Surface Parergon and the Arts of Suturing
8: The Force of Genre: Sculptural Tension and Typology
9: Power, Art, and the Mysteries of Rule
Conclusions, Concomitants, and Comparisons
Appendix: Collections and Stylistic Features
Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Awards
  • The Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award Honorable Mention
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