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Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 154–164.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Tobias Wofford African art has played a role in the practices of studio-trained African American artists since the Harlem Renaissance. As knowledge about African art has grown and changed, so too have the ways in which artists have appropriated such art and imagined their relationship...
View articletitled, Feedback: Between <span class="search-highlight">American</span> <span class="search-highlight">Art</span> and African <span class="search-highlight">Art</span> History
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Nka (1995) 1995 (2): 34–41.
Published: 01 May 1995
... critical access to the kind of work that artists are doing in terms of
African American representation. At the same time, Nka: Journal of Contemporary
African Art was convened due to the lack of representation and misrepresentation
of what constitutes African art. For far too long, people who have...
View articletitled, FORUM: AFRICAN <span class="search-highlight">AMERICAN</span> ARTISTS ON ISSUES OF MUSEUMS AND REPRESENTATION OF AFRICAN <span class="search-highlight">AMERICAN</span> <span class="search-highlight">ART</span>
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 6–15.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Tanya Sheehan True to its cultural roots in the United States, the field of American art history has been slow to recognize centuries of slavery’s shaping of visual production and has only begun to address historiography’s persistent devaluation of Black lives. This article explores how scholars...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">American</span> <span class="search-highlight">Art</span> Historiography, Slavery, and Its Aftermath
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Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 4–5.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Chika Okeke-Agulu Copyright © 2017 by Nka Publications 2017 From the Editor Alain Locke’s 1925 essay “The Legacy of Ancestral
Arts,” in which he called on African American art...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 218–219.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Cherise Smith Jordana Moore Saggese’s Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art is a monographic study of Jean-Michel Basquiat, an artist who experienced a near meteoric rise and fall. In four chapters, the author gives the artist’s work the scholarly and historical attention...
View articletitled, Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in <span class="search-highlight">American</span> <span class="search-highlight">Art</span>
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Nka (2012) 2012 (30): 16–27.
Published: 01 May 2012
... Angeles’s
African American
Arts Community
Carolyn Peter and Damon Willick
Gallery 32 offered a space where people could express n late 1968 a very young Suzanne Jackson opened
an independent voice in their work and not be an art gallery west...
View articletitled, Suzanne Jackson’s Gallery 32 and Los Angeles’s Burgeoning African <span class="search-highlight">American</span> <span class="search-highlight">Arts</span> Community
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Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 140–152.
Published: 01 November 2017
...—an American-bred Nigerian artist, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, and an African American, California-based artist, Brett Cook—with emphasis on the various dimensions of their art in engaging with people within a mostly unfamiliar environment and culture. Copyright © 2017 by Nka Publications 2017 smARTpower...
View articletitled, Transcultural Conversations: <span class="search-highlight">American</span> and Nigerian <span class="search-highlight">Art</span> in Dialogue
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Nka (2011) 2011 (29): 140–151.
Published: 01 November 2011
... by the two major movements in African American art of the twentieth century—the New Negro Arts movement and the Black Arts movement—Jones’s unique black perspective was often viewed through the mask, a symbol of classical African art and a signifier of black identity. For her, it acted as muse...
View articletitled, The Mask as Muse: The Influence of African <span class="search-highlight">Art</span> on the Life and Career of Loïs Mailou Jones
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Nka (2010) 2010 (26): 48–59.
Published: 01 May 2010
... of the portrayed — Lovell’s tion, to yield up a kind of truth.”8
50 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 26 • Spring 2010
Morrison works within the realm of human grating American forces, they were deployed with
truths, not verifiable facts, and thus draws a criti- French troops...
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Nka (2015) 2015 (36): 48–61.
Published: 01 May 2015
... and contemporary African art, has pub-
Wafer’s series may express an anodyne phase of lished widely on contemporary African American
coming to terms with Marikana, the analgesic may, art and South African art, with particular focus on
like its connotative title Mine, belong to the artist...
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Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 198–202.
Published: 01 November 2017
... and 1970s. Cahan’s research into four museums—the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem—reveals how art institutions responded incrementally to black artists’ demands for equity. Despite the different degrees...
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Nka (2012) 2012 (31): 36–45.
Published: 01 November 2012
... successive tiers of social abstraction in contemporary culture as they become visible and embodied in art objects. Copyright © 2012 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2012 Glenn Ligon, Warm Broad Glow II, 2011.
Installation view, Whitney Museum of American
Art. Neon, paint, and powder-coated...
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Nka (2010) 2010 (27): 100–107.
Published: 01 November 2010
... used yams as part of several measures itself against a global scale and escapes
installations and sculptures referencing Africa. the too often reductive discourse applied to African
Yams, after all, are related to colonization and were American art as socially and racially determined...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (29): 50–61.
Published: 01 November 2011
..., transforming Ringgold herself into a black feminist. At the same time, the Black Light series displays her formalist and aesthetic concerns regarding the larger American art scene, with which she was thoroughly familiar as a well-trained artist conversant with the European and American modernist canons...
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Nka (2015) 2015 (36): 40–47.
Published: 01 May 2015
... 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...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (29): 128–139.
Published: 01 November 2011
... their message into a wilder- of the chattel slavery of Africans in the Americas.
ness . . . of believers. Walker is an African Ameri- Interracial interaction threatened the integrity of
can artist, but is she performing African American the slave system and led to formal legal bound-
art? When I viewed one...
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Nka (2013) 2013 (33): 70–79.
Published: 01 November 2013
...
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...
View articletitled, Analog Girls in a Digital World: Fatimah Tuggar’s Afrofuturist Intervention in the Politics of “Traditional” African <span class="search-highlight">Art</span>
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Nka (2007) 2007 (21): 110–114.
Published: 01 May 2007
... and peasants. Not the of Art at Emory University and Curator of African
chiefs. It was the Western-educated bour• and African American Art at the High Museum,
geoisie.6 Atlanta, Georgia.
And so it has been for African Americans and
derogatory...
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Nka (2013) 2013 (33): 80–91.
Published: 01 November 2013
...-
versity Press, 1975).
Kobena Mercer is professor of history of art and Afri- 18. Connelly, Modern Art and the Grotesque, 15.
can American studies at Yale University. He writes 19. Thompson, Becoming Animal, 14.
20. Quoted in Storr...
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Nka (2014) 2014 (34): 80–89.
Published: 01 May 2014
... as an “elder of
distinction” at CONFABA 70, an African American
art history conference held at Northwestern Uni-
versity in 1970. She describes herself as part of “the
cadre” — a group of students involved with the con-
ference.1 In a sense Copeland also insinuates a bloc.
He reuses her words...
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