...Monique Kerman When Okwui Enwezor gained world renown as artistic director of Documenta11 in 2002, his accomplishments as curator of contemporary African art were already well established. His In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940–Present , exhibition (1996) had the temerity to describe...

... In/Sight: African tious debates surrounding immigration and French Photographers, 1940 Present and the 2001 exhibi- history. In A Host of Possibilities: Okwui Enwezor s tion The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Exhibition Making as a Practice of Hospitality, she Movements in Africa, 1945 1994...

..., in Cairo. Members presented five exhibitions in total: 1940 (February 8 24) in Sulayman (Soliman) Pasha s Nile Club, Cairo; 1941 (March 10 25) at the Immobilia Building, Cherif Street (formerly Madabegh Street), Cairo; 1942 (May 21 30) at Hotel Continental, Cairo; 1944 (May 12 22) and 1945 (May 30 June 9...

... with the Art and Liberty group s first Exhibition of Independent Art, several members author texts in French and Arabic that appear in local publications. 1940 45 The Art and Liberty group opens their first exhibition, From Mahmoud Said to Fouad Kamel, on February 8 in Cairo. They present five exhibitions...

.... This research presents Henein’s contribution to the historical, cultural, and national Egyptian trajectory, using some translated excerpts from his writings. The surrealist adventure Henein launched in Egypt was an important modernizing event in contemporary Egyptian culture. Although the influence...

... of such works, as a means of understanding the present and connecting Egyptian youths to literary and artistic trends in the world. Unlike Henein, who was raised partially in Europe, and Younan, who grew up in Upper Egypt, Telmisany spent his childhood years in a small village north of Cairo, in the family...

... was one of a series of contemporary graphic graphs from 1938 to 1940, which illustrate a break works presented by the San Francisco Chronicle for from his self- prescribed gurative representation. sale to the public at two dollars per print and also This is most apparent in the geometric design ele...

... fallen into oblivion in Egypt, where surrealism s imprint on the intellectual climate had been minimal more present in the plastic arts than in literature and that he had been content to engage with a small French-speaking elite, certainly very open-minded but limited in number, which meant he never...

... later, the article Surréalisme de l esprit, published by Jacques Ovadia, explicitly presented Van-Leo as a surrealist photographer and explained how he saw his models as they ought to be, rather than as they actually were.4 Although this approach was true to much of his career, in this article...

... lent fresh artistic resonance to its practice abroad.14 In December 1939, the Friends of Art Society presented Egypt s first Salon Internationale d Art Photographique, with King Farouk as its nominal patron. In terms of scale, there had been nothing like it in Egypt. Egyptians and foreign residents...

..., If we look closely, we will find that surrealism represents the most ambitious experiment against obscurantism of our time. It perceived and presented new, authentic voices. Voices from beyond memory, from beyond consciousness. . . . The surrealists are not content with announcing freedom of thought...

... in a formalist milieu and that, like Lewis’s oeuvre, presents simultaneous themes around the visibility and invisibility of blackness and speaks to an unmistakable black presence in the evolution and miscegenation of modernity. Copyright © 2011 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2011 Seeing Black...

... disjunctures similar to Delaney s certainly less extreme in their degree of abstraction emerge in Motley s paintings of streets and jazz clubs, in his work the city nevertheless operates as an ideological backdrop, a stage on which the New Negro presents themselves to the world.23 In other words, if Douglas s...

... to present PMW is the oldest continuously-operating makers who moved towards abstraction was Blackburn to the public as an artist of the non-profit printmaking studio in the country. tremendous and conflicting. This view, while WPA—specifically, a black artist...

... in the Village. But we hung out plateau of grace, presented with dignity, empathy, and insight. and we hung in - in lofts, ballrooms, and in cold water flats. We used to In the mid-sixties things began to shift. Many of Smith's friends and sit in the Riviera Cafe, Pandora's Box, and Rienzi's...

... portraiture in his introduction to In/Sight: African Photographers from 1940 to the Present (New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1995...

... diasporas. It examines the biennale’s presentation of these artists in its Nucleo Contemporaneo, including its pairing of the paintings of Brazilian artist Rubem Valentim with Mozambique-born Bertina Lopes and the batik textile compositions of Austria-born Susanne Wenger with those by Nigerian artist...

... This Orient that is everywhere is thus oppositional: it is to be found within ourselves as much as within the external world, in what directly surrounds us as in what is exotic and far away, in what is in the past as much as what is in the present. The surrealists statement represents simultaneously an 26...

... • 141 designer Louis Vergniaud Pierre-­Noël, peeks out and choice of bold colors and patterning. But this from behind a sconce on the adjacent wall just was not a recent innovation in her practice. It was below a large cow’s skull. Reminders of her train- present in her work from the very beginning...

... center is explored in this article through the lens of portraiture and fashion. Examining the unique social presence of the Ethiopian royal family in the media, both at home and abroad, this article presents an analysis of the fashionably dressed bodies of Emperor Haile Selassie and his children within...