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... was thus responding to the criticism that Négrtitude is simply an essentialism. To say that Négritude is a phenomenon is to say that it is a movement that unfolded through contradictions, reappraisals, palinodes, and reformulations. Both Aimé Césaire and Senghor have insisted that far from being...

... sketches? Relating Twombly’s studies to his own writings and retrospective commentaries, this article aims to show that Twombly’s attraction to African art corresponds to his exploration of the materiality of things, leading toward modes of mark making that would prove significant for his future production...

... to instrumentalize the black leader’s message and image for “deradicalization” purposes. This article traces US government’s efforts to use African American culture and history for diplomatic aims during the Cold War and the War on Terror. The essay also addresses the controversy sparked by the publication...

... seventy countries, including the North African delegations absent from the Senegalese event. The aims of the festival were “to revive and promote Black and African values and civilization; to illustrate the contributions that Black and African peoples have made to the universal currents of thoughts...

...Lydie Diakhaté This article aims to introduce Melvin Edwards’s career and explore, through his work in public art, his ongoing dialogue between his global black consciousness and conceptual art. Edwards is a pioneer and prominent artist in the history of contemporary African American art...

...-institutional contexts. Resourceful curators across the world have successfully translated his models into critical formats and inventive ways of producing social and political knowledge, carefully adjusted to local contexts and needs. The aim of this article is to trace the influential postcolonial “platforms...

... of diasporic relation, I aim to contextualize this polysemous signifier within the immediate legacy of a tumultuous, preceding half century. These decades saw the rise of a particular fascination with ancient Egyptian “heritage” alongside and as part of the development of racial pseudoscience in the United...

... are included as points of reference directing readers to the strengths of Tekleab’s achievements. Aiming not so much to authenticate her irrespressibly original works as to validate continuity between past and present in choice of topics and styles, the essay highlights the power of the artist in communicating...

... 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...

... and reception, this study aims to illuminate how racial politics influenced a politics of style in this volatile moment. To do so, it situates Die in relation to a mounting attention to protest, violence, social realism, and black aesthetics, especially as they crystallized in writer Amiri Baraka’s engagement...

... to Angola, and today he is one of the country’s most important artists. Even though he has exhibited in important venues like the biennales of Venice, São Paulo, and Havana, one of his main concerns is the establishment of better connections within the African continent. Thus he aims to work and exhibit...

... the purity of painting semantics. In this interview Washington reflects on the discipline of painting, the challenges he faces as he refines his skills, and his aims as he positions himself to claim a place in the present discourse. The interview covers such topics as his heroes and what they represent, what...

... (textual performances that aimed to somehow avoid framing and containing ephemeral but excessive acts of sounding black, looking black, and becoming black). Copyright © 2011 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2011 Black...

... groves and wild mountains. Yema is a film about the struggles being waged around the world and throughout history by men who aim to conquer. Vincent Ostria has called this into question in his review for the magazine Les InRocks ; however, I would argue that Djamila Sahraoui’s film, seen through...

...Manthia Diawara Copyright © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 TROPIQUES and the Surrealist Movement in Martinique Manthia Diawara T ropiques (1941 45), a cultural journal edited by Suzanne Césaire, René Ménil, and Aimé Césaire, takes its place between Légitime Défense (1932) and Présence...

..., Lorrain, and Basse-Pointe, where th e end of th e 1960s ). Aime Ces aire was already a poet was born, and wh ere you discover and expe• po litical mi litant wh o moved in the circles of the rien ce "the hysteri cal gra nds uc k of the sea ." ] editors of the journals L'Etudian t 1I0ir and No bo dy...

... and to awaken. But in the case of a death is an occasion to reflect on and reevaluate his consummately politically engaged writer like life and work, the art and ideology of decoloniza• Aime Cesaire, arguably the greatest poet of anti- tion or black modernism, the cultural movement...

...Locksley Edmondson Copyright © 2009 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2009 I' I' AIME CESAI RE (1913-2008) ARCHITECT I' OF NEGRITUDE Locksley Edmondson...

... and academicism in Cairo in the Egyptian School of Fine Arts and the salons of art. Egyptian cultural institutions restricted artistic freedom and placed artistic production in the service of its nationalist aims. The signatories add: We believe that is mere idiocy and folly to reduce modern art, as some desire...

... and social move- Jean-­François Lyotard revived the term, first used ments in Africa. This essay is not an attempt to by Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Judgment, in fill up the gap left by that reader. My aim here is 1981 in a series of lectures on the Kantian critique...