Robin Poynor (University of Florida, Gainesville)

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Robin Poynor
Professor
School of Art and Art History
University of Florida
P.O. Box 115801
Gainesville, Florida  32611-5801  USA

phone:  352-392-0201 ext. 223
fax:    352-392-8453
e-mail: rpoynor@ufl.edu                        



Research in African Art History, specializing in the art of the Yoruba
peoples of Nigeria and the Yoruba Diaspora.

Selected Publications:

2000    A History of Art in Africa. (Co-written with H. Cole and M.
Visona) for Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York. 544 pp., 700 ill. (Paperback
distributed by Prentice-Hall). (Best Books of 2000, Library Journal;
Nominated for Arnold Rubin Award, ACASA, 2001, received Honorable
Mention.)

2000    "The Arts of personal devotion in African Religion," in
Intimate Rituals and Personal Devotions: Spiritual Art Through the
Ages. Larry Perkins (editor), Gainesville: Harn Museum of Art, pp.
37-53.

1995    African Art at the Harn Museum: SPIRIT EYES, HUMAN HANDS,
Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

1993    Three entries for Barbier Mueller Museum catalog of Nigerian Art,
Geneva, Switzerland.

1992    "African Sculpture and Spiritual Powers," brochure essay for
African Collection at Harn Museum.

1992    "Sepik River Art and Men's Secrets," brochure essay for Spring
Collection at Harn Museum.

1991    Review, Icons: Ideals and Power in the Art of Africa, by Herbert
Cole, African Arts, 24(3):25-32, 92.

1989   "If the Chiefs are Like This, What Must the King Be Like?” in Man
Does Not Go Naked, Engelbrecht and Gardi, eds., Basel: Basel Beitrage
zur Ethnnologie, Band 30:133-149.

1987   "Second Burial Effigies", African Arts, 21(1): 62-63, 81-83, 86.

1987   "Naturalism and Abstraction in Owo Masks", African Arts, 20(4):
56-61,91.

1986   Power Concealed; Power Revealed, exhibition catalog, Daytona Beach
Museum of Arts & Sciences. (48 pp.)

1985   Review, Art and Death in a Senufo Village by Anita Glaze, Bashiru,
12(2): 110-14.

1984   Nigerian Sculpture: BRIDGES TO POWER, catalog, Birmingham AL:
Birmingham Museum of Art.

1982   Thunder Over Miami, exhibition catalog, Miami: Miami-Dade Community
College.

1982   Review, Yoruba: Sculpture of West Africa by Fagg and Pemberton
III, African Arts, 16(1): 8-14.

1981   "Fragment of an Ivory Sword (Udamalore)", in For Spirits and Kings,
S Vogel, ed., NY: Met. Museum.

1980   "Traditional Textiles in Owo, Nigeria", African Arts, 14(1):
47-51,88.

1980   Review, African Artistry by John Henry Drewal, African Arts,
14(1): 71-73.