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Book | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | A saint in the city: Sufi arts of urban Senegal |
Authors: | Roberts, Allen F. Roberts, Mary Nooter |
Year: | 2003 |
Pages: | 284 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Los Angeles |
Publisher: | UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History |
ISBN: | 0930741935 |
Geographic term: | Senegal |
Subjects: | Sufism arts exhibition catalogues (form) pictorial works (form) art Mourides |
About person: | Ahmadu Bamba (c. 1850-1927) |
Abstract: | Preface / Mamadou DioufIntroduction: Aura and Icon in Contemporary SenegalCh. 1. Mystical reproductions: Photography and the authentic simulacrumCh. 2. Portraits of the hidden side: Sanctifying domestic spaceCh. 3. Stations in a life: Glass paintings as visual hagiographyCh. 4. Apostles of hard work: Sheikh Ibra Fall and the Baye Fall movementCh. 5. 'Walls that speak': Public art and postcolonial memoryCh. 6. Mouride women: In the mirror of the motherCh. 7. Healing words: Mouride arts of writing and inscriptionCh. 8. Contemporary art and a 'Mouride way of reasoning'Ch. 9. An architecture of the wordCh. 10. Pilgrimage and exile, transcendence and prosperity. |