Africa

United States of America

Professor

University of Florida, Gainesville

rpoynor@ufl.edu

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

phone: 352-392-0201 ext. 223
fax: 352-392-8453

Nigeria

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

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.

Yoruba ; African art ; art history ; Diaspora ; ...