Nigeria: Arts Overview

The Aesthetics of African Arts

• Civilizing Scars
• Strength, Health, Fecundity, and Beauty
• Wealth, Health, and Beauty
• African Attitudes toward Art Objects: the BaLega
• Yoruba Aesthetics: Theories and Attitudes
• Mask Sculpture and Social Practice

Resources outside the Postcolonial Web

• Yoruba Art: An Illustrated Introduction, Skidmore College
• Yoruba Aesthetics: Theories and Attitudes
• Michael Conner, Yoruba Metal Sculpture, University of Indiana
• Michael Conner, Yoruba Wood Sculpture, University of Indiana
• Nigerian Adire Cloth, in the Museum for Textiles
• Art in the Shadow
• Virtual Gallery of African Art, at U. of Illinois
• Jannea R. Prescott, Women in African Art, University of Virginia

• African Arts Overview
• African Attitudes toward Art Objects: the BaLega

• Religious Studies/Art History 345--African Art and the Virtual Museum: An Undergraduate Course, University of Virginia Spring Semester 1996. Last updated Thursday, March 21,1996.