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Nka (2019) 2019 (44): 38–50.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Cherise Smith In this article the author questions Carrie Mae Weems’s use of conceptualist and appropriative strategies to conjure the persistent unresolved feelings that result from the historical and continued trauma of black people. Weems’s series From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried (1995...
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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 (2015) 2015 (36): 40–47.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Nicholas Miller This article examines AfriCOBRA cofounder Jeff Donaldson’s painting Ala Shango (1969) in relation to the 1968 Chicago riots and the militaristic and Pan-Africanist rhetoric of the Black Nationalist movement. Specifically, I discuss the artist’s appropriation and incorporation...
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Nka (2024) 2024 (54): 34–49.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Ana Nolasco Carnival emerges as an expression filled with nuances and paradoxes. While it challenges social norms and breaks established conventions, it is also vulnerable to governmental appropriation and its transformation into a tourist product. Examples of this duality can be seen in various...
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Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 108–124.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of transatlantic slavery provided the capital that galvanized white Western art systems of patronage, collection, and exhibition into existence. He represents black women, men, and children as the appropriate subjects of fine art at the same time that he remains dedicated to restoring the history...
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Nka (2018) 2018 (42-43): 28–43.
Published: 01 November 2018
... scholars of Marxism have, thus far, ignored non-Western (including African) contributions to Marxism as they have been appropriated and reshaped in the context of decolonization and postcolonial struggles. The author revisits the contribution of non-Western Marxism to the discourse of liberation...
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Nka (2019) 2019 (44): 8–23.
Published: 01 May 2019
... frames of looking. The portraits demonstrate how postrevolutionary Haitians appropriated the seemingly hegemonic aesthetic codes of Western art in ways ambivalent to, if not wholly detached from, their temporal-bound values of origins, the singular or original work of art, and the linear concept...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 62–71.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of ethnic or xenophobic closure, and it may foreground an effective cosmopolitanism that ensures social rights on a local and a transnational level. The author considers not only the European nationalist tradition but also the ways in which it was appropriated and redefined in non-European places...
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Nka (2015) 2015 (37): 54–61.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., but who simultaneously has French roots. He was classified as an individual whose self-importance, impeccable dress, and manners attract attention and afford status. A black dandy can be defined as a self-fashioned gentleman who intentionally appropriates classical European fashion with an African...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 102–109.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Kimberli Gant This essay explores the photographic series Queen Nanny of the Maroons (2004–5) by artist Renée Cox. In the series Cox appropriates the eighteenth-century Jamaican folk hero Queen Nanny, leader of the Windward Maroon community, and brings her into the present. Very little is known...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (28): 88–95.
Published: 01 May 2011
... into modernism, epistemology, and the potential of appropriation. Copyright © 2011 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2011 Journal of Contemporary African Art • 28 • Spring 2011
88 • Nka
DOI 10.1215/10757163-1266702 © 2011 by Nka Publications
“Cut...
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Nka (1999) 1999 (10): 24–29.
Published: 01 May 1999
... directly appropriated from his sources, also have an edgy, contemporary feel. His sense
of color and his way of applying paint may have had their roots in art history (I find echoes of
Matisse, and, to some extent, Beauford Delaney), but his playful rendering of figures in a scene
seem...
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Nka (2001) 2001 (13-14): 100–105.
Published: 01 May 2001
..., showing
composed of objets trouves, that is found or salvaged second• clear signs of long and hard use. In Africa, however, it contin•
hand objects. But it can also refer to the stance taken towards ues to be driven as a matter of course, and this appropriation
images, painting traditions...
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Nka (2007) 2007 (21): 8–9.
Published: 01 May 2007
.... Appropriation of Africa's visu•
take into consideration both the history of this medium al world through the invention of the camera went
and the particular aesthetics it has come to represent. It hand in hand with the appropriation of Africa's wealth.
must also take into consideration the revolutionary...
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Nka (2000) 2000 (11-12): 120.
Published: 01 May 2000
...
gorization based on imperialist notions wake of independence during a critical reinvention of the veil is exemplified
of authenticity and appropriation. period of self-fashioning and self- in the designs of Katoucha of London...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 218–219.
Published: 01 November 2016
... Guattari, A
of elements appropriated from founda- on the politics of employing such ap- Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia,
tional sources. The author points to proaches. For example, what are the trans. Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: University of
the fact that bebop pioneers commu...
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Nka (2007) 2007 (21): 118–119.
Published: 01 May 2007
...
by Fred Hoffman, Kellie Jones, Marc and the bursts of color peeking
Mayer, and Franklin Sirmans, Basquiat through the whitewashed background
appropriately begins its...
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Nka (2022) 2022 (50): 64–75.
Published: 01 May 2022
... especially owe a debt for the aesthetic contributions made by the Yoruba, the Ibo, the Ibibio and the Bini.2 The quote stands against the appropriation of Africa in the primitivist modernism of Paris or New York, demonstrating an affinity different in meaning to that purveyed by the champions of that moment...
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Nka (1998) 1998 (8): 69–72.
Published: 01 May 1998
... with Naomi Campbell and the a) was an appropriate theme for this biennale, now that South
Spice Girls. Africa's opening up to the world after all those years of Apartheid...
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Nka (1999) 1999 (10): 72.
Published: 01 May 1999
... are
surfaced advertising "explosions" stereotype or whether it is second confronted with images of such vi•
and ragged-edge graphic takeoffs generation appropriation whose olence emblematic of the fear we...
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