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...Tanisha Ford This essay examines the rise in popularity of “Afro look” fashions in the 1970s. The name Afro look was given by fashion industry insiders on both sides of the Atlantic to describe clothing that featured African and African-inspired prints, textiles, and embroidery techniques. Usually...

... of Paradise. Add a loving ration; recognized Paradise as the alleged overarching theme of couple to the scenery, loosening their embrace only to lie on a his all-encompassing fantasy of light and color; and given deserted beach (as in Afro Sunrise) and you have what may look...

... about novelists, archical, as an organization it would be impossible to work people doing science fiction and so on. Then they started with. And the other thing they were concerned about was looking around for Afro-­futurist musicians, and they latched working conditions, yes, but the primary...

... Mambety, like Sidibe's photo• graphs, borrows from the mise-en-scene of African Cinema in Black and White the Western and B-movies, as well as from the Looking at the photographs in the anthology, one French Nouvelle Vague. The poetic...

... a kind of passes before the screen. Layer configure viewers as individual them, the Afro Cyborg exposes cinematic "hook" with which upon layer of impressions build...

... that as we demanded an art of struggle, an art 130th Street, New York City (detail). Source: Liberator 5, no. 6 that related to the reality of our history and the real (1965): 27 life of the world, particularly of the Afro-­American people, it became clearer and clearer that the stan- dard bourgeois...

..., and the movement of crowds. His work compels viewers to look carefully at other people and themselves. How do we interact with others and what happens durinG those exchanGes? His interest in human interaction on the micro and macro scales has not yet received in-depth analysis. When for many abstract...

... • November 2015 to configure her 136th Street townhouse into a She advertised Walker products extensively in luxurious beauty salon and grand upstairs living the Baltimore Afro-American (The Afro), the quarters. In October 1927, when she converted Pittsburgh Courier, the Chicago Defender...

..., Felrath Hines, Norman Lewis, not interested in some “gimmick” that will pander Alvin Hollingsworth, Merton Simpson, Earl Miller, to an interest in things Negroid. William Majors, Reggie Gammon, Hale Woodruff, Perry Ferguson, Calvin Douglass, James Yeargans, James Yeargans: We should look to our...

... the beauty shop and to the Internet? The cur- hair. In fact, women looking to learn how to style rent social and digital-media frenzy over natural and groom their Afro-textured, natural hair are hair represents part of a much longer discourse more likely to visit Nappturality.com or the more...

..., Badu imports a wildness and revelation for people and their embodied histories; exoticism into “Q.U.E.E.N as well as a claim for when worn—and worked—it becomes “another black/feminist authority, as she combines her Afro way” by which to fashion the self and progressive and Cleopatra looks...

... but which are aligned with a col- and African and Afro-­American music, of useful lective pattern of existence, impacted and sustained approaches to rhythm. This discovery moved them by long-­held cultural values without compromising from the conceptual to the practical.”6 aesthetic standards.”4...

... DOI 10.1215/10757163-3641700 © 2016 by Nka Publications Barkley L. Hendricks, APBs (Afro Parisian Brothers), 1978. Oil and acrylic on linen canvas, 72 x 50 in. Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. © Barkley L. Hendricks Arabindan-Kesson...

... that takes the Portuguese word histórias (histoires in French, historias in Spanish, and storie in Italian) as a framework to explore art history from Afro-Atlantic (2018), feminist (2019), Indigenous (2023), and other vital perspectives. More than the word histories in English, histórias expansively...

... on display, and later was creating the over-­the-­top ceremonial look of the inspired to paint Les fétiches.15 performance when she designed the dancers’ head- Jones’s masks for Les fétiches reference specific dresses and assisted with the costuming. A series examples from different cultural groups...

... drawing Olympia; and then again when he Africanized his demoi• surfaces such as mirrors and lakes, forming a sustained visual selles d'Avignon by giving them faces that look like African masks. metaphor for self-reflexivity...

... forms, from the revered Afro bloc Ilê Aiyê in Bahia, Brazil, to the carnivals of Mindelo, Cape Verde; Bissau, Guinea-Bissau; and the Carnival of Vitória in Luanda, Angola. These celebrations highlight the power of Carnival to amplify marginalized voices and solidify national identities in areas of rich...

... commonly associated with the screech his 1925 “The Legacy of Ancestral Arts.”3 Taking the of a poorly orchestrated audio-visual system, where cue from white European and American primitiv- a microphone picks up the sound emanating from a ists, Locke urged his black contemporaries to look speaker...

.... Even more successful white t-shirt, white-gold chain and backpack, he looks like a is Chris Ofili's Afrodizzia, 1996. The controversial Afro-British typical high school student. His teeth, however, are capped artist's elephant dung supported paintings...

...James Smalls This article constitutes part of my continuously evolving fascination and research into the life, legacy, and visual significance of Féral Benga (1906–57). It foregrounds, in particular, the critical discourses surrounding (Afro)modernism generated by his presence in, and influence...