... emanate from the icons as cosmic rays or halos. The harmony and unity in Gatson’s work empowers us to think of a brighter future, one that accepts and scrutinizes the past. Vigorous power lines—the meeting of two forces opposed to each other by their very nature, formally and conceptually—guide the viewer...

... behind the connection, however, Udechukwu, the art relies on the lyrical power of The art department was started in 1961, but dur• because a majority of the Nsukka artists who gestural lines as well as on the sensitive balancing ing the Nigeria-Biafra War...

... (Woman Series), Mixed media, 1997 relations, is an attempt to propose recovery of the lost power.^ The Woman Series demonstrates Kure's mastery of draw• ing—the sweeping lines arc and layer over one another and dark, heavily worked areas give way to swaths of clean white paper...

... next to one another. In her work, the artist often address• es issues such as marginalization and power relationships, the important influence. human condition...

... that she is a prostitute, that their intimacy can- poem with the phonetic lines “Fy-­ah, / Fy-­ah, Lawd, / not be separated from the power relation of the Fy-­ah gonna burn ma soul.”29 Whereas Locke money exchange, spurs Cordelia to become a pros...

... grave, indeed muck. Yet the power of spring also conveys the money the possibility of strength in regeneration. the grass, the ground The motif of grieving is pursued in Harper’s...

... in Chicago in 1968, this group evolved out the rhetoric of black nationalism, with its chants of of what once was the Organization for Black Ameri- “Black power,” “Black pride,” and “Black is beauti- can Culture, or OBAC, the collective responsible for ful”; more daydream balloons drifted in the sky...

... and France to reassert their tradition and modernity, past histories and future position in North Africa and gave rise to powerful possibilities are mapped out in the work of con• articulations of a new postcolonial, pan-African, temporary artists. and non-aligned world...

.... Altogether the new Nearby on the wall above, Wilson places the inte• globe is a condensed expression of Wilson's line of rior design of the slave ship. In the midst of the artistic development that culminates in this insis• "Flora of Jamaica" collection with its elaborate tent vision of the power...

... of of power and the intrigues of a concern for the prey/predator with splendid energy. Her long• South Eastern Nigeria with which...

... — artists the of practices multiple the of image an of — power the that us reminds Smith way this In photograph. family said the to reacted have colleagues and friends contrasting inthe introduction her foregrounds Smith Furthermore, States. United inthe society and race...

... reveal William Kentridge’s long. power of development as he moves from his initial crude experiment through in-­depth exploration to Where does that leave me, with neither a belief in reach an uneasy resolution...

... of how a formal aes - leged collective creativity and solidarity. Both Don - plinary artists ’ group , the Organization of Black based in political or social power. Douglas asserts thetic articulates political and social meaning. In aldson and Abrams were instrumental in founding American...

... in racial types and framed his work as a comprehensive study of the cultures of the Caribbean.7 Cortor s recollections of his travels, moreover, consistently focus on his deep embeddedness in Haiti, recalling what James Clifford has described as the legitimizing power of fieldwork for those working...

... to hang pieces together which hint at these resonances. Nevertheless, the most powerful impression made is of Odutukun himself, his fascination with paint and love of exper...

... Verdean Creole population experienced under Portuguese colonialism. This ambiguity is central to Irineu Destourelles s work and underlies his artistic exploration of the gap between text and image, interior and exterior, reality and perception. In this context, reflection on the power of language...

... drawings leaving once powerful symbols as accidental traces. As a result, Rhode's drawings appear as simple quotes, annotations in a discourse that for being fully articulated does• n't want to tell the whole story in lengthy details and relies upon the viewer's ability to fill in the gaps...

... such words as “nails” or “brass taks” [sic], he comprises several Congolese power figures, which now switches to use these references as actual tools. were most likely on display during the time of Scratching several rows of perforated lines into the Twombly’s visit.27 The minkisi (of the type nkondi...

... nate with the two Ralph Ellison texts on black back - deplete its power by forcing us to recognize its split - meaning as ghost. The black in the two Ellison ground. 24 Approaching from the entrance to the ting apart. In addition, the very...

... much like ing, asserting the power of painting to encompass all mosaic but also evoke the pixelated format of digital the plastic arts without an appeal to other mediums images. Whitten’s turn on tessellation combines or naturalistic representation. Each fragment of allusions to ancient...