Hammer Art History Lecture
Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA“Patterns of Anomaly in African Ivories” Abstract: This lecture takes up questions in African Medieval to Early Modern ivory imagery and sources framed in part around a set of seemingly anomalous motifs that address how power and ivory have mutually shaped each other both in Africa (particularly Nigeria) and in European contexts. Among the works taken...