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...Margo Natalie Crawford This essay considers the very use of the word “black” in diasporic freedom struggles as a type of strategic abstraction. Crawford’s focus on blackness as a strategic abstraction deepens our understanding of the practice of diaspora as the practice of black abstraction...

... AESTHETICS OF THE ABSTRACT Julie L. McGee AND EXPL elebrating twenty years of democracy in 2014, South Africa has been dubbed “the C protest capital of the world,” and the esca- lating and epiphenomenal violence relative to pub- lic protests...

... of the virtue of self-­reliance, a notion that Abstraction! on Bay Area painters in March 2012. was reinforced by the boundaries of racial segrega- tion. Though society has come a long way since the Notes days of Jim Crow, the story of the Davis brothers 1. In 1932 the US Public Health Service...

... himself arriving in 1946). The article discusses one of Williams’s most celebrated works, Human World (1950), and examines how the artist’s practice engaged with anticolonial resistance and modernist discourse surrounding abstraction. The author also explores and comments on the exhibitions in which...

... artists employed abstraction—histories that often begin in the mid-1960s or 1970s. In examining the mid-1950s Plaiton works, I hope to both bring Cousins and his work back to visibility and suggest that this history actually began substantially earlier. [email protected] © 2022 by Nka...

...Holiday Powers This paper proposes a new reading of Moroccan abstract painter Jilali Gharbaoui through the lens of decolonization. Gharbaoui fits uncomfortably into the narrative of modernism in Morocco. Unlike other painters, interested in direct connections between their shapes or abstractions...

... Ṣàngódáre Gbádégẹsin Àjàlá as successful case studies of the biennale’s aims to center the Global South in the history of modernism. It critiques the effectiveness of the main exhibition’s Nucleo Storico on portraiture and abstraction for effacing differences between the art worlds occupied by the artists...

...Natalie Melas [email protected] Mario Lewis: Forest Notebooks . Medulla Art Gallery , Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago , November 1 – December 20 , 2023 Copyright © 2024 by Nka Publications 2024 Caribbean Trinidad living landscape abstraction agropoetics REVIEW...

... in Europe suggest a foundation in which naming identity (in terms of race, gender, or other classifications) was not yet of interest. Rather, the aesthetic experimentalism associated with abstract expressionism enabled Amos to master abstraction in a manner that would guide her entire oeuvre. 116 Nka...

... of IS. By Abstraction is comprised of a its nature, it is not an insular language. The resilience But within Modernism, it becomes inscribed in a prede• of its signage runs like a thread through many different termined lineage of ideas that represent an equivocal milieus, collapsing insurmountable distances...

... of the postwar artists to form Spiral, an artistic alliance that rep- avant-­garde, the history of abstract expressionism resented African American artists in the March has largely expunged their contribution, instead on Washington and that sought to formulate an canonizing the work of such artists...

..., 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...

... Lewis as a painter who was con• homage to a working class labor ethic which became part of the cerned with the thin line between narration and spectacle; a abstract expressionist myth. painting, Passing Storm, 1952, seems at first only about...

...• sition from principle to abstract motif, from the signified to the Fringe Foyer of the London Royal the sign, in much Yoruba art there is a narrative intercedent Festival Hall in 1991. between the idea and the form...

... his deep relation to the world around him via a mode of abstraction that is layered with meanings. This investigation follows by centering upon a single painting from Bowling’s white series, Icarus (2005), produced after the death of his eldest son. Icarus explores themes of time, death, and spiritual...

...• vate studio. While in Germany, he met many famous abstract painters and was inspired by this art form. After graduating from the Cologne Art Academy he held...

..., La Biennale di Venezia. Courtesy Museum of West African Art, Benin City, Nigeria. Photo: Marco Cappelleti Studio Powers Nka 105 Installation view of the Nucleo Storico: Abstraction at 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Stranieri Ovunque Foreigners Everywhere. Courtesy La...

...Fo Wilson This essay examines the tensions between dichotomies concerning the color black through the work of the abstract expressionist Norman Lewis and through some of Lewis’s philosophical ambitions that have found a place in the work of the contemporary artist Ellen Gallagher. Seizing...

... of social realism, in particular Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, whose work encouraged unity of classes and the glorification of folk roots and peasant culture. Through his extensive travels and experimentation, Johnson later became focused on abstract expressionism and explored it through the rest of his...

... photogra• phy in 1958. Cowans served as a military photo• pher Adger Cowans move the medium from its grapher in the U.S. Navy before moving to New comfortable post dictating descriptive accuracy York, where he worked with Life magazine photo• and visual journalism, to an abstract expression...