Word: lawal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lawal, senior research fellow of the University of lfe, Nigeria, is teaching courses this semester in West African art history, Fine Arts 108, and Yoruba history and culture, History of Religion...
...Lawal's primary interest is art history but, he said, "when dealing with African arts you can't help talking about religion. It provides the main sort of basis for the arts, it is the chief patron...
...Lawal's lectureship is under a joint appointment by the History of Religion department and the committee of Afro-American religious studies of the Divinity Schools...
Westernization has eroded much of the religious basis of African art, but as an art historian. Nigerian visiting lecturer Babatunde Lawal accepts the inevitability of this change and remains interested in the evolution of art forms today...
John B. Carman, director of the Center for the Study of World Religion, said yesterday Lawal is part of an experimental program to bring different lecturers from Africa each year for the next several years...