Nigerian images: the splendor of African sculpture

Glossary

Map of Nigeria

The ancient arts

Nigeria's share of Africas' past

How African art came to Europe

The antiquity of painting in Africa

The oldest African sculpture

The fortunate deposition of the Nok culture

Arts lost without trace

Stylistic unity and diversity in Nok art

Nok sculpture and its descendants

A missing millennium in art history

The probable antiquity of Yoruba culture

The primacy of Ife in Yoruba religion

The many-sided artistic accomplishment of Ife

Deranged myths and displaced shrines

Conjectural dating of the Ife antiquities

Nok and Ife sculpture as close relations

Nok and Ife: direct or collateral kinship?

Benin art: terra firma and armature

Benin court style and Bini tribal style

A partial reconstruction of indigenous Bini culture

The early kingship at Benin: tendencies towards 'colonialism' and absolutism

How the Ife style came to Benin and the brief survival of naturalism

The middle or plaque period as the foundation of Benin art history

Inspiration and pedestrianism in the Benin plaques

The supply position of bronze as a factor in the increasing weightiness of Benin art

Middle-period heads: classical stereotypes and the art of support

Benin court art as a victory of materialsim over faith

The late period at Benin: inflation sets in

The 'Udo style' of bronze-casting

Benin ivories: four centuries of sustained excellence

The lower NIger bronze industry mystery

The poetic quality of lower Niger art

Plates 1-76

The recent period

The ant and the woodcarver: or the balance of destruction and regeneration

Genius and mediocrity: a reciproccing mechanism of change in the carver's art

On some implications of cycles

Naming the tribal artist

Of Kobadoku, Olowe, Agbonbiofe, Bamgboye, Arowogun, Azume and Ochai

On the tribality of African art

Concerning the nature of things

Of force, energy, or power as the stuff of nature, and man's spiritual control of it

The channels of force

Dance and the mask in the generation of force

Increase as the subject of tribal sculpture and its expression in the curves of growth

Nigeria's Sibylline books.