THE CONCEPT OF ÌWÀ IN YORÙBÁ AESTHETICS

Rowland Abiodun

doi:10.7443/problemata.v13i1.63351

Autores

Rowland Abiodun Amherst College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v13i1.63351

Palavras-chave:

Estética Yorubá, Ìwà, Caráter, Beleza, Existência

Resumo

Este artigo explorará o conceito de ìwà, geralmente traduzido como “caráter” e suas possíveis implicações para o estudo da estética iorubá. Partindo do adágio iorubá que afirma “ìwà l’ẹwà”, ou seja, ìwà constitui beleza, o artigo buscará explicitar de que maneiras a categoria que fora usualmente como ética, o caráter (ìwà) esteve, no pensamento e na arte iorubás internamente vinculado com a ideia de beleza (ẹwà). A relação entre os conceitos iorubás de caráter e existência também serão explorados a partir da arte e da percepção iorubana dos orixás, divindades com complexas relações com o domínio da existência. O artigo também discutirá as relações entre beleza e caráter no contexto de uma distinção entre uma microestética e uma macroestética; ideias úteis para a compreensão da produção, crítica e fruição da arte entre os iorubás. Pretende-se que essa abordagem contribua para a compreensão das vinculações entre ética e estética na filosofia da arte iorubá.

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Biografia do Autor

Rowland Abiodun, Amherst College

Rowland Abiodun is John C. Newton Professor of Art, the History of Art, and Black Studies at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts. He is the author of Yoruba Art and Language: Seeking the African in African Art (2014), What Follows Six Is More than Seven: Understanding African Art (1995); co-author of Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought (1989), Yoruba Art and Aesthetics (1991), and Cloth Only Wears to Shreds: Yoruba Textiles and Photographs from the Beier Collection (2004); and co-editor of Ifá Divination: Knowledge, Power and Performance, 2016 and The Yoruba Artist: New Theoretical Perspectives on African Arts (1994). Abiodun is Advisory Board member, the National Museum of African Art; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; and was a consultant for, and participant in, the Smithsonian World Film, Kindred Spirits: Contemporary Nigerian Art. A former member and chair of the Herskovits Book Award Committee of the African Studies Association, Abiodun has also served on the Board of Directors of the African Studies Association and as the President of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association. He chaired the Executive Board of the Five College African Scholars Program, Amherst, Massachusetts, and has been interviewed by the BBC World Service on the Art of Africa. In 2011, he received the Leadership Award of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association in recognition of his excellence, innovative contributions, and vision in the fields of African and Diasporic Arts.

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