Hammer Art History Lecture by Suzanne Blier, “Patterns of Anomaly in African Ivories”
Hammer Art History Lecture by Suzanne Blier, “Patterns of Anomaly in African Ivories”
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 up are images of elephants in...