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DescriptionPresents important artworks from Africa, of Yoruba, Igbo, Urhobo, Cross River, Benin, and Benue River Valley origins. This title features sculptures from throughout Nigeria, Edo/Benin bronze and brass sculptures and more, all from a major African-owned collection of African art. Author descriptionSylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie is Associate Professor of Art History, University of California Santa Barbara. He has an extensive scholarly background in classical, modern, and contemporary African and African Diaspora Arts. He is the Director of Aachron Knowledge Systems, author of Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist (winner of the 2009 Melville J. Herskovits Award), and founder and editor of Critical Interventions:Joumal ofAfricon Art History and Visual Culture. |