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/ˈiːfeɪ/ Used attributively to designate the art of the Yoruba people, spec. the bronzes and terra-cottas of which the first examples were found in Ife in 1912.
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1913 R. Blind tr. L. Frobenius Voice Afr. I. xiv. 293 Various comparatively coarse stone monuments are raised above the earth in Ifé. Below it we found old sculptured stonework..bronze work far exceeding that of Benin in its perfection and representative skill, and at last some terra-cottas amazing to those who inspect them.]
1939 Burlington Mag. Oct. 152/2 The Ife terra-cottas and bronzes show the most diverse racial characteristics, from the semitic..running through all the ranges to the negroid.
1949 Fagg & Underwood in Man XLIX. 2 (caption) The exhibition of Ife bronzes at the British Museum, July–September 1948.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. II. 609/2 All the Ife heads are technically and artistically on the highest level. The portrait-like treatment, with absolutely correct proportions, is extremely realistic and the modelling is of a beautiful sensitiveness and vitality. As works of art they rank even higher than the more impersonal and conventional Benin heads.
1960 Times 5 Oct. 18/7 The features of the Ife heads suddenly appear again.
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