Main entry:

Roberts, Allen F., 1945-

Title & Author:

A saint in the city : Sufi arts of urban Senegal / Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts ; with Gassia Armenian and Ousmane Gueye.

Publication:

Los Angeles, Calif. : UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, ©2003.

Description:

284 pages : color illustrations, color map, chiefly color portraits ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-272) and index.
Preface / Mamadou Diouf -- Introduction: Aura and Icon in Contemporary Senegal -- Ch. 1. Mystical Reproductions: Photography and the Authentic Simulacrum -- Ch. 2. Portraits of the Hidden Side: Sanctifying Domestic Space -- Ch. 3. Stations in a Life: Glass Paintings as Visual Hagiography -- Ch. 4. Apostles of Hard Work: Sheikh Ibra Fall and the Baye Fall Movement -- Ch. 5. "Walls That Speak": Public Art and Postcolonial Memory -- Ch. 6. Mouride Women: In the Mirror of the Mother -- Ch. 7. Healing Words: Mouride Arts of Writing and Inscription -- Ch. 8. Contemporary Art and a "Mouride Way of Reasoning" -- Ch. 9. An Architecture of the Word -- Ch. 10. Pilgrimage and Exile, Transcendence and Prosperity.

ISBN:

0930741935 (soft)
9780930741938 (soft)

Subject:

Bāmbā, Aḥmadū, 1852-1927.
Bāmbā, Aḥmadū, 1852-1927 In art Exhibitions.
Bamba, Amadou, 1852-1927.
Bāmbā, Ahmadū, 1852-1927
Murīdīyah.
Islam and art.
Art, Senegalese.
Mourides.
Islam et art.
Art sénégalais.
Islamitische kunst.
Soefi's.

Added entries:

Roberts, Mary Nooter.
Armenian, Gassia.
Guèye, Ousmane, 1933-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316387
Call No.: 316387
Copy: 1
Status: Available