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...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...
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...
Fine Arts 108 will trace West African art from the first millenium B.C. to the present. Lawal said. "However art is not created in isolation," he said nod added he would also discuss the also religious influences and uses...
...Lawal, who teaches both African and Western European art history in Nigeria, said African art had acted as a catalyst for modern art in Europe. He said the Europeans found the forms "original and stimulating...