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The woman with the artistic brush : a life history of Yoruba batik artist Nikẹ Davies

Author: Kim Marie Vaz
Publisher: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©1995.
Series: Foremother legacies.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Nike Davies is one of the few African women known internationally in contemporary art circles. The Woman with the Artistic Brush traces her life history and illustrates the strategies developed by women to mitigate male rule. Presenting a critique of the woman's place in contemporary Yoruba society from the perspective of a woman who lived it, this book covers Nike's life from the time of her mother's death when Nike
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Nike Olaniyi Davies; Nikẹ Olaniyi Davies; Nike Olaniyi-Davies
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kim Marie Vaz
ISBN: 156324506X 9781563245060 1563245078 9781563245077
OCLC Number: 30893298
Notes: "An East gate book."
Description: xliv, 137 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Series Title: Foremother legacies.
Responsibility: Kim Marie Vaz.

Abstract:

Nike Davies is one of the few African women known internationally in contemporary art circles. The Woman with the Artistic Brush traces her life history and illustrates the strategies developed by women to mitigate male rule. Presenting a critique of the woman's place in contemporary Yoruba society from the perspective of a woman who lived it, this book covers Nike's life from the time of her mother's death when Nike was six to the culmination of her dream in the creation, against severe societal odds, of a center for arts and culture that has over 120 members. Along the way, The Woman with the Artistic Brush details how Nike ran away from home and joined a traveling theater group after her father tried to arrange her marriage, subsequently married and joined in the polygynous household of a noted artist from the popular Osogbo school, and finally broke clear of that situation after suffering sixteen years of domestic violence.

The Woman with the Artistic Brush is another superb contribution to the Foremother Legacies series.

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