... Ota. supposed to crush its instincts. ous processional models from carnival parades, to There may then be something to learn from funeral processions, to political demonstrations. processional traditions which, having escaped the Refusing the constricted space...

... of artistic interest, indeed, as the art itself. a notorious parade participant, crossing over Carib- Shani Peters’s 2011 performance of iconic Afri- bean and African American processional traditions: can American antislavery and civil rights figures in he gave the first parade permit to the Harlem Carni...

... the many vernaculars he used. © 2020 by Nka Publications 2020 Norman Lewis abstract expressionism Harlem Artists’ Guild Studio 35 Processional Journal of Contemporary African Art 47 November 20206 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-8719604 © 2020 by Nka Publications Lucy H. Partman M usician...

... of Contemporary African Art • 29 • Fall 2011 black. Layered in Lewis’s work are convergent ideas of visibility and invisibility, as Veneciano attests.13 Works like Processional (1964) can read success- fully as abstraction and at the same time, when one examines them more deeply, as symbolic represen...

...: flow of the processional for a Carnival Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness theory that emphasizes not flesh and (London: Verso, 1993). indulgence, but movement, with its 2 Not only has Carnival always been...

... lead some to sense an almost mannerist approach in the work. But I would ar- Geoffrey lacoues is a critic and poet currently working on a Ph.D. at CUNY. New York. Processional, 1964, oil on canvas, courtesy The Studio...

... for In the end, they chose a title and concept for the a black-­and-­white palette may have been born of show that revealed more about the nature of the his desire to show Processional.46 The title betrayed group than the inflammatory proposal of Missis- the harsh reality of the group: a meeting of artists...