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'What follows six is more than seven': Understanding African Art (Occasional Paper)
'What follows six is more than seven' Understanding African Art - Occasional Paper Author:Rowland Abiodun Text of the first William Fagg Memorial Lecture, a series founded to commemorate the African interests of the BM's Keeper of Ethnography between 1969 and 1974. The title refers to a Yoruba proverb that suggests that we look beyond what is easily observed if we are to understand something. Only if art is placed in an African intellectual context,... more » argues the speaker, can we hope to fully appreciate it. A modern reflection on the `social life of things' which will be of interest to many theoreticians.« less