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Décès de Professor Cornelius Oyeleke Adepegba
octobre 2002 | | Arts plastiques | Nigeria

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Il était l’auteur d’une quarantaine de livres sur l’art au Nigeria
Professor Cornelius Oyeleke Adepegba passed away on Tuesday, 1 October
2002, at University College Hospital, Ibadan. Professor Adepegba served as
Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan from May
1992-95 and from 1998-2001. He also taught at the Institute, in various
capacities, since 1976 after receiving a Ph.D. in Art History from Indiana
University, under the supervision of Professor Roy Sieber.

Throughout his life, he pursued an active research agenda and wrote on a
range of Nigerian art topics. He published over 40 works, including papers
on Nok terracottas, on the Yoruba concept of art, and on contemporary
Nigerian art as well as books, including Nigerian Art, Its Traditions and
Modern Tendencies (1995), Yoruba Metal Sculpture (1991), and Decorative
Arts of the Fulani Nomads (1986). He also received several fellowships
and grants, including a Fulbright Fellowship (1993-94) and more recently, a
senior fellowship at the Smithsonian Museum of African Art (2002-3) and a
Getty Collaborative Grant (2002-3).

His intellectual energy, academic integrity, and wry sense of humor will
sorely be missed by his family, colleagues, and students. E sun re o.

English

Professor Cornelius Oyeleke Adepegba passed away on Tuesday, 1 October
2002, at University College Hospital, Ibadan. Professor Adepegba served as
Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan from May
1992-95 and from 1998-2001. He also taught at the Institute, in various
capacities, since 1976 after receiving a Ph.D. in Art History from Indiana
University, under the supervision of Professor Roy Sieber.

Throughout his life, he pursued an active research agenda and wrote on a
range of Nigerian art topics. He published over 40 works, including papers
on Nok terracottas, on the Yoruba concept of art, and on contemporary
Nigerian art as well as books, including Nigerian Art, Its Traditions and
Modern Tendencies (1995), Yoruba Metal Sculpture (1991), and Decorative
Arts of the Fulani Nomads (1986). He also received several fellowships
and grants, including a Fulbright Fellowship (1993-94) and more recently, a
senior fellowship at the Smithsonian Museum of African Art (2002-3) and a
Getty Collaborative Grant (2002-3).

His intellectual energy, academic integrity, and wry sense of humor will
sorely be missed by his family, colleagues, and students. E sun re o.
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