A saint in the city : Sufi arts of urban Senegal.
A Saint in the Cityexamines the elaborate visual culture of the Mourides, a Senegalese Sufi movement based upon the mystical teachings of Sheikh Amadou Bamba (1953-1927). In the boldly visual city of Dakar, images abound despite the fact that Senegal is largely a Muslim country. Vibrant street mural...
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Los Angeles :
UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History,
2006.
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Sommario:
- Introduction: Aura and Icon in Contemporary Senegal
- Mystical Reproductions: Photography and the Authentic Simulacrum
- Portraits of the Hidden Side: Sanctifying Domestic Space
- Stations in a Life: Glass Paintings as Visual Hagiography
- Apostles of Hard Work: Sheikh Ibra Fall and the Baye Fall Movement
- "Walls That Speak": Public Art and Postcolonial Memory
- Mouride Women: In the Mirror of the Mother
- Healing Words: Mouride Arts of Writing and Inscription
- Contemporary Art and a "Mouride Way of Reasoning"
- An Architecture of the Word
- Pilgrimage and Exile, Transcendence and Prosperity.