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Nka (1995) 1995 (2): 34–41.
Published: 01 May 1995
... critical access to the kind of work that artists are doing in terms of
African American representation. At the same time, Nka: Journal of Contemporary
African Art was convened due to the lack of representation and misrepresentation
of what constitutes African art. For far too long, people who have...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 6–15.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Tanya Sheehan True to its cultural roots in the United States, the field of American art history has been slow to recognize centuries of slavery’s shaping of visual production and has only begun to address historiography’s persistent devaluation of Black lives. This article explores how scholars...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 218–219.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Cherise Smith Jordana Moore Saggese’s Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art is a monographic study of Jean-Michel Basquiat, an artist who experienced a near meteoric rise and fall. In four chapters, the author gives the artist’s work the scholarly and historical attention...
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Nka (2022) 2022 (50): 8–21.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Emily C. Burns [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 Transverse Spaces African American Cultural Production in Paris, 1900 Emily C. Burns T humbing through one of the albums compil ed by W. E. B. Du Bois rendering Negro Life in Georgia, U.S.A., featured...
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Nka (2022) 2022 (50): 146–159.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Sophie Sanders [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 SONYA CLARK Constellation of a New American Canon Sophie Sanders The place in which I ll fit will not exist until I make it. James Baldwin H ow does an artist interrogate history and material culture...
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Nka (2022) 2022 (51): 128–131.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Jody B. Cutler-Bittner [email protected] © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 REVIEWS FAITH RINGGOLD: AMERICAN PEOPLE THE NEW MUSEUM, NEW YORK FEBRUARY 17 JUNE 5, 2022 Among my most memorable art exp er iences was visiting the New Museum s exhibition Dancing at the Louvre: Faith...
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Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 4–5.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Chika Okeke-Agulu Copyright © 2017 by Nka Publications 2017 From the Editor Alain Locke’s 1925 essay “The Legacy of Ancestral
Arts,” in which he called on African American art...
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Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 140–152.
Published: 01 November 2017
...—an American-bred Nigerian artist, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, and an African American, California-based artist, Brett Cook—with emphasis on the various dimensions of their art in engaging with people within a mostly unfamiliar environment and culture. Copyright © 2017 by Nka Publications 2017 smARTpower...
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Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 154–164.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Tobias Wofford African art has played a role in the practices of studio-trained African American artists since the Harlem Renaissance. As knowledge about African art has grown and changed, so too have the ways in which artists have appropriated such art and imagined their relationship...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 174–176.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Jody B. Cutler-Bittner © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 REVIEWS JACOB LAWRENCE: THE AMERICAN STRUGGLE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK AUGUST 29 NOVEMBER 1, 2020 Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle, Jacob Lawrence, Massacre in Boston, Panel 2, 1954 55, from Struggle: From the History...
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Nka (2015) 2015 (37): 94–103.
Published: 01 November 2015
...: American Runway Revolution, which revisits the famed fashion battle at Versailles and examines the dynamics of race, economics, beauty, history, and the epic results of that legendary night in 1973 at the Chateau de Versailles. When five American designers enjoy victory against their French counterparts...
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Nka (1996) 1996 (5): 71.
Published: 01 November 1996
... this
AN AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY BASQUI AT artist and so did his Afro-Puerto
MIRAMAX FILMS Rican mother. In the escape...
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Nka (2012) 2012 (30): 16–27.
Published: 01 May 2012
... Angeles’s
African American
Arts Community
Carolyn Peter and Damon Willick
Gallery 32 offered a space where people could express n late 1968 a very young Suzanne Jackson opened
an independent voice in their work and not be an art gallery west...
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Nka (2015) 2015 (36): 48–61.
Published: 01 May 2015
... and contemporary African art, has pub-
Wafer’s series may express an anodyne phase of lished widely on contemporary African American
coming to terms with Marikana, the analgesic may, art and South African art, with particular focus on
like its connotative title Mine, belong to the artist...
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Nka (2015) 2015 (37): 16–27.
Published: 01 November 2015
... photographers in the art world, he worked with master artists, intellectuals, and photographers. Also in 1968, a group of black men—plus one woman— formed Essence Communications Inc. A momentous triangulation of the women’s liberation movement, the cultural nationalism of African American people in the United...
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Nka (2015) 2015 (37): 38–43.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Bill Gaskins This essay is an account of the production of the most reproduced photograph from Good And Bad Hair: Photographs by Bill Gaskins , my monograph on the role of hair styling in American culture through the lives of African Americans. The essay also recalls and unpacks a number...
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Nka (2010) 2010 (26): 48–59.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Julie L. McGee This essay examines recent work by the American artist Whitfield Lovell, who has been collecting and using vintage accoutrements—the material culture of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century African American life, including photographs—for many years. He is best known for his...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (29): 22–31.
Published: 01 November 2011
... that as we demanded an art of struggle, an art 130th Street, New York City (detail). Source: Liberator 5, no. 6
that related to the reality of our history and the real (1965): 27
life of the world, particularly of the Afro-American
people, it became clearer and clearer that the stan-
dard bourgeois...
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Nka (2014) 2014 (34): 40–47.
Published: 01 May 2014
... American community in ways that reflected and enacted larger societal institutional and political conceptions. Copyright © 2014 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2014 COLLABORATIVE
IMPROVISATION AS
CRITICAL
PEDAGOGY
Journal of Contemporary African Art • 34...
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Nka (2022) 2022 (50): 116–131.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Phoebe Wolfskill [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 Making Art about Art Emma Amos s Foundations in London Phoebe Wolfskill E mma Amos s oeuvre is generally interpreted in terms of her identity as an African American woman. This designation is expected...
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