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Ìwàlewà: The Dialectics of Inner and Outer Beauty among the Yòrùbá
Babatunde Lawal
Description: The Language of Beauty in African Art
The Language of Beauty in African Art
Numbering more than twenty-five million people, the Yòrùbá inhabit the present-day Republics of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo...
Author
Babatunde Lawal
PublisherArt Institute of Chicago
Copyright© 2022 by The Art Institute of Chicago
Related print edition pages: pp.154-161
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00326.9
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22984
Chapter subject tags:Yoruba (African people)--Social life and customsMythology, YorubaSculpture, YorubaYoruba (African people)--FolkloreYoruba (African people)--Rites and ceremoniesArt, African--20th centuryAesthetics, AfricanFeminine beauty (Aesthetics)--Africa

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