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Mailing Address School of Art and Art History University of Florida P.O. Box 115801 Gainesville, Florida 32611-5801 USA

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Countries of Specialization Nigeria

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Research Interests African Art History, specializing in the art of the Yoruba peoples of Nigeria and the Yoruba Diaspora.

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Publications * 2000 A History of Art in Africa. (Co-written with H. Cole and M. Visona) for Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York. 544 pp., 700 ill. (Paperback distributed by Prentice-Hall). (Best Books of 2000, Library Journal; Nominated for Arnold Rubin Award, ACASA, 2001, received Honorable Mention.) 2000 "The Arts of personal devotion in African Religion," in Intimate Rituals and Personal Devotions: Spiritual Art Through the Ages. Larry Perkins (editor), Gainesville: Harn Museum of Art, pp. 37-53. 1995 African Art at the Harn Museum: SPIRIT EYES, HUMAN HANDS, Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 1993 Three entries for Barbier Mueller Museum catalog of Nigerian Art, Geneva, Switzerland. 1992 "African Sculpture and Spiritual Powers," brochure essay for African Collection at Harn Museum. 1992 "Sepik River Art and Men's Secrets," brochure essay for Spring Collection at Harn Museum. 1991 Review, Icons: Ideals and Power in the Art of Africa, by Herbert Cole, African Arts, 24(3):25-32, 92. 1989 "If the Chiefs are Like This, What Must the King Be Like?” in Man Does Not Go Naked, Engelbrecht and Gardi, eds., Basel: Basel Beitrage zur Ethnnologie, Band 30:133-149. 1987 "Second Burial Effigies", African Arts, 21(1): 62-63, 81-83, 86. 1987 "Naturalism and Abstraction in Owo Masks", African Arts, 20(4): 56-61,91. 1986 Power Concealed; Power Revealed, exhibition catalog, Daytona Beach Museum of Arts & Sciences. (48 pp.) 1985 Review, Art and Death in a Senufo Village by Anita Glaze, Bashiru, 12(2): 110-14. 1984 Nigerian Sculpture: BRIDGES TO POWER, catalog, Birmingham AL: Birmingham Museum of Art. 1982 Thunder Over Miami, exhibition catalog, Miami: Miami-Dade Community College. 1982 Review, Yoruba: Sculpture of West Africa by Fagg and Pemberton III, African Arts, 16(1): 8-14. 1981 "Fragment of an Ivory Sword (Udamalore)", in For Spirits and Kings, S Vogel, ed., NY: Met. Museum. 1980 "Traditional Textiles in Owo, Nigeria", African Arts, 14(1): 47-51,88. 1980 Review, African Artistry by John Henry Drewal, African Arts, 14(1): 71-73.

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