...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...

... 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 in total at the following locations: 1940 (February 8...

.... 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...

... through the Arabic-language magazine Al Tatawwur ( Evolution ) and the French-language newpaper Don Quichotte in the early 1940s. Henein also created the publishing company Éditions Masses to help build the reputation of emerging poets, organized and financed five exhibitions in Cairo of surrealist...

...Ola Seif When the Art and Liberty group launched its activities in the late 1930s and early 1940s, the young Levon Boyadjian (later to become the famous Van-Leo) and his elder brother, Angelo, were jointly debuting their careers as photographers in Cairo. Van-Leo’s archive of photographic prints...

... and Liberty, a group of Egyptian artists and writers who resisted the Nazi and fascist risings before and after World War II. Anchored by Samir Gharib’s Surrealism in Egypt and Plastic Arts ; correspondence between photographer Lee Miller, living in Cairo in the 1940s, and British artist and poet Roland...

... (An Effort), a magazine published in French by a group of writers known as Les Essayistes (The Essayists) in Cairo. Henein stated, 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...

... 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...

... tossed back and forth by his orchestrating ankles, ultimately obfuscating Alex altogether.1 In simultaneously 54 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 52 May 2023 DOI 10.1215/10757163-10434994 © 2023 by Nka Publications Beauford Delaney, Greene Street, 1940. Oil on board, 22 1/2 x 17 1/2...

... earned a scholarship to The Art Student's League from 1940 to 1943, where he formed a lasting artistic friendship with one of his instructors, Will Barnet. Through the mid-1940s, Blackburn also worked for the Harmon Foundation. In 1948, he opened The Printmaking Workshop in Chelsea...

... 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...

... 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...

... in design, in color, and in expression.” —Negro History Bulletin, 1940 The mask is of special significance as a record and symbol of life or civilization. In the highly creative...

... 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...

... high- lighted in vitrines to elucidate contemporaneous Journal of Contemporary African Art 45 November 2019144 Nka Preacher, 1940. Tempera on board, 30 x 21 1/2 in. The Davidsons, Los Angeles, California. © 1940 The Charles White Archives Photo: The Huntington Library, Art Collections...