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Nka (2018) 2018 (42-43): 110–123.
Published: 01 November 2018
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Nka (2019) 2019 (44): 94–107.
Published: 01 May 2019
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Nka (1997) 1997 (6-7): 64.
Published: 01 May 1997
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Nka (2014) 2014 (35): 74–83.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Brett M. Van Hoesen This essay reviews the compelling recent exhibition Glyphs: Acts of Inscription , hosted by the Pitzer College Art Galleries in Claremont, California, co-curated by Renée Mussai, curator and head of archive at Autograph ABP in London, and Ruti Talmor, assistant professor...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (52): 6–21.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Leena Habiballa THE VISUAL LIFE Archival and Counter-archival Narratives of Revolt Leena Habiballa 6 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 52 May 2023 DOI 10.1215/10757163-10434938 © 2020 Tropics of Meta OF REVOLUTION Suha Barakat, 2019. Night demonstrations in Al-Qiyada sit-in; the banner...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 168–173.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., but his true saviors have languished in obscurity. Fortunately, the true story of Ota Benga’s tragic sojourn from the Congo to the United States can be reconstructed by returning to hundreds of documents stored in numerous archives across the United States. Copyright © 2016 Nka: Journal of Contemporary...
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Nka (2015) 2015 (37): 104–113.
Published: 01 November 2015
... modistes. All photos courtesy Madam Walker Family Archives / A’Lelia Bundles 106 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 37 • November 2015 A’Leliaexquisitesequins,chiffon. Walker heavy material: oftensilks, metallic handwore...
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 152–161.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of cosmopolitan societies and selves; and the changing representation of blackness, desire, and beauty across time and space. His archive thus not only constitutes a rare document of the black experience in postwar Britain during the Swinging Sixties, but also provides an important frame of reference, overlapping...
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 6–15.
Published: 01 November 2023
... lithographs with color sheet, 34.5 x 48.8 cm (13 9/16 x 19 3/16 in Courtesy Mabel Brady Garvan Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Like the related fields of American history and literature, American art history has also been shaped by the silences that define the archive of slavery. How...
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Nka (2018) 2018 (42-43): 164–168.
Published: 01 November 2018
... American contingent and documented the festival, creating an archive of more than fifteen hundred images. After this life-changing experience, the young artist returned home to Brooklyn and went on to produce exceptional photographs of unique moments in the cultural history of the United States...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (49): 164–182.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Ola Seif When the Art and Liberty group launched its activities in the late 1930s and early 1940s, the young Levon Boyadjian (later to become the famous Van-Leo) and his elder brother, Angelo, were jointly debuting their careers as photographers in Cairo. Van-Leo’s archive of photographic prints...
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Nka (2022) 2022 (51): 34–46.
Published: 01 November 2022
... radically constrained the mobility and selfhood of Black South Africans. They also gesture toward a perhaps unanticipated symptom of South Africa’s democratic turn: the issue of confronting the stuff of apartheid, the archival debris left over from a system reliant on exhaustive administrative documentation...
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Nka (2019) 2019 (44): 38–50.
Published: 01 May 2019
...) both draws on and critiques conventions of documentary photography. Containing appropriated archival photographs, her works are often interpreted as the artist subverting visual stereotypes of black people in order to commemorate their lives and experiences. The author explores the formal strategies...
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Nka (2012) 2012 (30): 36–43.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Connie Winston Founded in 1972, the Hatch-Billops Collection houses an extensive archive of African American memorabilia and exists as a direct result of the 1965 “open admissions” policy at the City College of New York, where James Hatch was teaching theater history. Today the collection’s mission...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 168–178.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and social events and climate during the revolution, highlighting key factions at play and taking into account the reactions of protestors online and on the street. Examples of how the revolution was driven online by archival research, music videos, comedians, memes, graffiti, and symbols of martyrdom...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (47): 56–66.
Published: 01 November 2020
... mother made during his childhood in the hopes of striking it rich on the Home Shopping Network. This article focuses on an early work, The Country Ball (2012), an animated video that brings together archival footage from Satterwhite’s family at a 1989 Mother’s Day cookout alongside his mother’s drawings...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (47): 82–93.
Published: 01 November 2020
.... The article suggests that photography and Congolese popular painting are enmeshed in the creation of a visual archive around the figure of Lumumba. Furthermore, it examines the indebtedness of popular painting to photographic culture as well as other sources in the “colonial contact zone.” © 2020 by Nka...
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Nka (2022) 2022 (51): 6–20.
Published: 01 November 2022
... rich career, this article recovers the artist’s early biography through family archives, including correspondence and period criticism. It then examines Cousins’s early artwork and his own description of his artistic practice culminating in Plaiton . Finally, it considers Cousins’s 1950s sculptures...
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Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 84–107.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of sculpture that speaks of a cosmopolitan vision in which several traditions collide to create a new visual language combining African-derived forms with a minimalist aesthetic. The new works and the archival material included in the retrospective exhibition Amir Nour: Brevity Is the Soul of Wit , organized...
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Nka (2018) 2018 (42-43): 154–163.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., local articulation of black consciousness on Chicago’s South Side in 1967 in order to illustrate how local dimensions of black consciousness relate to the making of a global black consciousness. Crawford’s starting point is a photo archive of Bob Crawford, her father, a photographer who worked...