... to the continent. This article explores the meeting of African American art and the knowledge about Africa that is spread through African art history. African American artists such as Houston Conwill, David Hammons, Alison Saar, and Renee Stout have drawn on art historical writings about African art in order...

... attention—the characteristic Africana colors draw the viewer in to further discover and investigate African American history. The colors, textures, subjects, and abstractions in Gatson’s work echo with celebrations of African American history and important icons. Odetta Holmes, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet...

... American History and Culture, inspired by a Yoruban sculpture within the museum s collection, a seven-foot-tall depiction of a crowned figure carved by the late African artist Olowe of Ise. Photo: © Alan Karchmer Adjaye Nka 137 The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture...

..., Disparities and Deformations, 16. and teaches on the visual arts of the black diaspora, 21. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, ed., Monster Theory: Reading Culture examining African American, Caribbean, and black (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), 4. British artists in modern and contemporary...

... it rightly deserves while contributing to the fields of American art, African American art, contemporary art, and diaspora art. The introduction sets the stage for contemporary readers to grasp the art world of the 1980s at the same time that it identifies Basquiat’s multiple positionalities as a middle...

... argue, for example, that in the United States, where philanthropy is institutionalized, or Nigeria Beth Hinderliter is assistant professor of art history and (my home country), where it is increasingly becoming a fad, coordinator of African and African American studies at people...

... and innovative techniques of painting that demonstrate the depths of his commitment to gestural abstraction as his primary mode of creative expression. Attentive to shifting terrain in technology, culture, and African American history during his lifetime, Whitten’s work participates in a memorial project...

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... there to better understand their own ences to write an important position paper, “The black identity through its art, history, culture, and African Influence on Afro-­American Art,” that she literature. Among them were poet and playwright presented at the International Culture and Develop- LeRoi Jones (Amiri...

... of African Americans foremost intellectuals, is stark evidence that even the and the physical, mental, and sexual abuse of prison• most highly educated have learned little from the ers perpetrated daily in federal and state peniten• history of lynching. While Sontag acknowledges that tiaries...

..., par• sympathy with the way our social environment ticularly around ideas about blackness and race."1 engenders assumptions and desensitizes people to Like the work of so many African American the feelings of those who are different. He indi• artists, Freeman's work is about self...

... of the Black Arts movement’s most central ar- buoyancy could still be found. “Negro” became “Af- tistic collectives, the African Commune of Bad ro-American”. “Afro-American” became “black”. An Relevant Artists, or, more commonly, AfriCOBRA. increasing sense of racial pride emerged alongside Formed...

... That Use to Be.” Then a twenty- and history at the University of Delaware and author something black woman who had abandoned the of Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s hair-straightening of her youth to embrace her hair Activism in the Beauty Industry (University...

... at the University of Florida in the School of Art and Art History. Her research interests include American art and visual culture of the African diaspora...

... African American artists since the 1920s mentary about the history of race within which have sought to express their individuality rather she found herself. I would like to raise two related than their racial or ethnic selves in their work, and points about her work and her position in public others...

... Note art. American African and in contemporary shespecializes where Hill, Chapel at lina Caro of North University the at history Bobier Kim have occupied. subjects black that positions tural struc and functions, social spectives, per of range wide the exploring...

... Americans. Why was the term lynching not applied to the savage Robert L. Harris, Jr. is Professor of African American beating and murder of Matthew Shepard? Was that History, Africana Studies and Research Center, and Vice not a lynching? It seems that that term is applied...

... Antonio, Texas. See Judith Russi Kirshner, "Tracey Rose;' Tracey Rose Kellie Jones is an Assistant Professor of History of Art and African 00.1, San Antonio: ArtPace, 2000. For a discussion of the concept of American Studies at Yale University. archive in South African...

... out to an audience history at SUNY College at Old Westbury. She has that is not generally part of the art world, and he written extensively on African American art and especially wants to direct his work to senior citi- contemporary art. She is currently preparing an zens...

... he brings together necessarily encourage us to deepen our knowledge of African and American history and culture. Works discussed include Lovell’s 2008 Kith and Kin exhibition at D. C. Moore Gallery in New York and his Kin Series , an ongoing sequence of images and tableaux dedicated to African...