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Striking Iron

The Art of African Blacksmiths

Edited by Allen F. Roberts, Tom Joyce and Marla C. Berns
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Striking Iron combines interdisciplinary scholarship with vivid illustrations to offer the most comprehensive treatment of the blacksmith's art in sub-Saharan Africa to date. For more than two millennia, African blacksmiths have transformed one of Earth's most basic natural resources into objects of life-changing utility, empowerment, prestige, spiritual potency, and astonishing artistry—shaping African cultures in the most fundamental ways. Interspersed throughout are photographs of more than 250 diverse works from over 100 ethnic groups—including tools, blades, currencies, wood sculptures studded with iron, musical instruments, and accoutrements—with field photographs documenting blacksmiths at work and objects in use. Seventeen contributors write from the disciplinary perspectives of art history, art, anthropology, archaeology, history, and astronomy, examining how the blacksmiths' virtuosity can harness powers of the natural and spiritual worlds, effect change and ensure protection, assist with life's challenges and transitions, and enhance the efficacies of sacred acts.

About the Authors

Allen F. Roberts is professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. Tom Joyce is an artist and MacArthur Fellow originally trained as a blacksmith. Marla C. Berns is director of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Other contributors include Rowland Abiodun, Shadreck Chirikure, William Dewey, lsaie Dougnon, Henry J. Drewal, Candice Goucher, Manuel Jordán, Colleen Kriger, E.C. Krupp, Scott MacEachern, Patrick McNaughton, Philip M. Peek, Ray Silverman, and John Watson.
Fowler Museum at UCLA

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