...John Peffer Copyright © 1998 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1998 kind of open-plan galleries onefound TRANSFORMING THE CROWN...

... black British art history The Other Story black artist exhibitions Transforming the Crown Rasheed Araeen Journal of Contemporary African Art 45 November 20198 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-7916820 © 2019 by Nka Publications Eddie Chambers T ime was, or at least time might have been, when...

... that has firm roots in the Industrial Revolution.1 However, at its most Journal of Contemporary African Art • 40 • May 2017 56 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-3885951 © 2017 by Nka Publications Crown Princess Medferiashwork, c. 1943...

... of Wolof political institutions “go out tomorrow from village to village to enslave in which the Ceddo have traditionally had a voice, other Ceddo.” The Ceddo are, of course, crown transforming the matrilineal rules of succession to slaves, but in traditional society they clearly enjoy...

... their 18 crown from a pair of hands draped with white cere- wives, and discipline their children. monial regalia embroidered with a cross. According to Emmanuel, this is a Lebanese Maronite Catho- This blogger’s summary of the South African lic Church ceremony.16 If it is unclear whether...

..., intricately country’s complex dialogue with modernity. designed crown is a widespread symbol of the East One aspect of that dialogue, revealed through African country’s place in an international imagi- photographic images, is the role of the emperor’s nary.1 Together with the bold colors...

...," in reads "click to interrogate." tion of framing subjectivity specific to fuse their identities which are made con• Transforming the Crown: African, Asian...

... New Crowned Hope, produced by Simon Fields and Keith Griffiths from Illuminations Films, London. 29 Daratt (Dry Season), written, directed, and produced by Mahmat-Saleh Haroun (London: New Crowned Hope, 2006). 30 The terms quoted here are taken from Otto E. Rössler, Das Flammenschwert (The Flaming...

...Avinoam Shalem This article discusses a painting of the Great Dam of Aswan made by Abdel Hadi al-Gazzar in 1964 and immediately crowned as the iconic image of Egypt in the heroic age of the Nasser regime. The painting clearly adopts the aesthetic language of surrealism, illustrating a particular...

...: Alfred Knopp, 1993), 242 43. 19 Said, Culture and Imperialism, 243. 20 See Said, Culture and Imperialism; and Okwui Enwezor, Question of Place: Revisions, Reassessments, Diaspora, in Transforming the Crown: African, Asian, and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966 1996, ed. Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd and M...

.... Although the focus blockbusters and Bollywood movies. This historical of the series is on nature, in some images, boys put space is located in the Grand Socco, the large plaza on flower crowns, or children play a game around a at the connecting point between the old medina and tree. In Oxalis Crown...

... the heavens, they are often used to queen’s crown, with its human hand and cat’s head. represent the spirits of ancestors, and here, the con- A bird’s feather protrudes from the back of her head nection seems apparent.5 like a wing from Mercury’s helmet. She has the chest of a man but below the waist...

... “Walker Heiress Leaves NY to Join Hubby in Dixie,” Baltimore Van Vechten about Black Art and Letters, ed. Bruce Kellner Afro-American, October 29, 1927, 7. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979), 154. 17 Dudley, “Ideal African-American Interior,” 108. 7 Gabriele Polona, “Is Crowned...

... and to 1934—once proclaimed that "I am a France, beginning in 1635 when Martinique first Frenchman first and an African second," such an fell under French colonial control. Martinique eloquent testimony to the triumph of the French thereafter became a domain of the French Crown...

...-marketed fashion weeks. And Johannesburg competes with collections that hang from rails all over the world. Lagos for the continent’s fashion crown. Seasoned Some designers’ work is more Afro-centric; others designers include Marianne Fassler, whose signature make clothes that do not at first glance...

... wool and cigars as emblems of plantations at the of Elizabeth II. According to his reimaging, this same time that he relies on a toy police car as an contemporary monarch’s iconic emblems of wealth, icon of white racist authority. For Donkor “strong empire, and nationhood—her crown and jewelry...

..., condemning, rejecting, and hurting; eyes constantly look upward, or farther, as though crowning their dream with an invisible horizon before the final fall.41 A man with protruding facial bones and sealed lips clamped in silence and misery embraces the face of a woman with five eyes. The woman looks...

... Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen.6 With one hand grab• discount record stores, and a variety of first-class bing his crotch and a joint between his fingers, a nightclubs that Hendricks began frequenting as a crown of thorns around a flaming heart...

... the initial idea consisted of two performers wear- nature presents several attributes, the performers are ing elaborate crowns and sitting on raised platforms able to see and capture from their various perspec- while facing the Atlantic Ocean. Both performers, tives the comments and reactions...

... was later identified as James Hazell, aged 32; he was subsequently jailed for five years by Birmingham Crown Court. For original press image, see www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail /news-photo/youth-carrying-a-fire-bomb-on-the-second-day-of -the-news-photo/848234836? - youth-carrying-a-firebomb-on-the -second-day...