尼日利亚是非洲文明古国,在公元19世纪前的两千多年间,这里曾出现过一系列十分独特而重要的文化。后人在这些文化中发现的大量陶雕和铜雕艺术品,不仅工艺技术达到令人惊叹的水平,而且这些艺术品在艺术风格方面显示出了极完美的写实手法、典雅的自然主义风格和成熟的理性精神,所有这一切,从黑非洲文化发展史的“一般情形”来看,似乎都是一个“难于解释的例外”。事实上,对尼日利亚这些古代文化艺术现象的合理解读,正是摒除世人文化偏见,重建非洲黑人古代文化艺术史的一个关键环节。 Nigeria is an ancient civilization in Africa. During the two thousand years preceding the 19th century, there was a series of very unique and important cultures here. The large number of pottery and bronze artefacts discovered by these descendants in these cultures not only achieved amazing levels of craftsmanship, but also showed their perfect artistic style in terms of artistic style, elegant naturalism and The mature rational spirit, all of which, from the “general case” of the history of black African cultural development, seems to be a “hard to explain exception”. In fact, the rational interpretation of these ancient cultural and art phenomena in Nigeria is just a key link that removes the cultural bias of the world and rebuilds the history of ancient African black culture and art.