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Nka (2019) 2019 (45): 8–17.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Eddie Chambers This article discusses the changing nature of art history when it comes to black British artists and suggests that such history has perhaps moved away from existing to instead correcting or addressing the systemic absences of such artists from British art. This is typified by Rasheed...
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Postcolonial Grotesque: Jane Alexander’s Poetic Monsters
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Nka (2013) 2013 (33): 80–91.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., Disparities and Deformations, 16.
and teaches on the visual arts of the black diaspora, 21. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, ed., Monster Theory: Reading Culture
examining African American, Caribbean, and black (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), 4.
British artists in modern and contemporary...
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Through the Wire: Black British People and the Riot
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Nka (2015) 2015 (36): 6–15.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of Black
riots in Brixton and Tottenham, respectively, were British artists. He is also an associate professor in
certainly sparked by widespread accounts of these the art history department of the University of Texas
two acts or consequences of great violence, meted at Austin.
out to matriarchal...
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The Photographs of Mia Gröndahl
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Nka (2015) 2015 (36): 62–75.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of Black
social upheaval. Her images reveal the extent to British artists. He is also an associate professor in the
which both aspirations and experiences tend to find art history department of the University of Texas at
particularly direct, poignant, and powerful expres- Austin.
sion through...
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Lubaina Himid: Do You Want An Easy Life?
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Nka (2024) 2024 (54): 6–23.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Omar Kholeif Dr Omar Kholeif maps out the life and practice of the path-breaking British-artist, Lubaina Himid RA CBE (born, Zanzibar 1954) through a considered engagement of her multivalent creative output—in visual art, writing, and exhibition-making. A leading figure in the British Black Arts...
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John Akomfrah: Multichannel Prehensions
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Nka (2019) 2019 (45): 128–139.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Multichannel Prehensions Ian Bourland John Akomfrah, still frame from Vertigo Sea, 2015. Multichannel video. Courtesy Lisson Gallery. © Smoking Dogs Films Bourland Nka 129 A s of 2018, four broad moments within the history of black British art might be charted: 1) a nascent history, in which artists...
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Dissonant Divas
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Nka (2014) 2014 (35): 22–31.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of John Cage, and black
British female performers who disrupt our expecta-
tions of the relationships among word, image, and
sound. Like the stuttering black bartender in Blonde
Venus, these dissonant divas reclaim inarticulacy
and nonsense to assert other histories and experi-
ences...
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Making Waves
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Nka (2019) 2019 (45): 48–61.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain, art historian Kobena Mercer puts forward a challenge.1 He calls for art- ists, curators, and critics to begin the long, overdue process of constructing an art history that maps the dialogues and developments of black British art onto broader stories...
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Self-Portraiture and Representations of Blackness in the Work of Donald Rodney
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Nka (2019) 2019 (45): 74–86.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., 2004). 41 Mercer, Then and Now. 42 Pratibha Parmar, Black Feminism: The Politics of Articu- lation, in Identity: Community, Culture, Difference, ed. Jonathan Rutherford (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1990), 116. Donald Rodney self-portraiture black British art history Rasheed Araeen...
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Illness as Metaphor: Donald Rodney’s X-ray Photographs
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Nka (2019) 2019 (45): 88–98.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the 1980s in Britain, particularly in the earlier periods, works produced by black British artists centered on responses to so- cial narratives commenting on invisibility, personal histories (as related to the British slave trade and its abolition), societal injustices, and identity politics. Prominent...
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Captain Shit and Other Allegories of Black Stardom: The Work of Chris Ofili
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Nka (1999) 1999 (10): 40–45.
Published: 01 May 1999
... art establishment, and to suggest that government sponsorship of Black British art was not only no longer necessary, but that it was also
counter-productive. To them this meant that the Black British art of the 1980s was being relegated to what was now largely perceived as the
garbage heap...
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Icons Brought Forward: Renee Cox’s Queen Nanny of the Maroons
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 102–109.
Published: 01 November 2016
...
glimpses into much deeper conversations about the accounts by seventeenth-century British officials
ambiguous notions of masculinity and femininity, on their transactions between the Maroons. The
varying societal representations of black Caribbean Jamaican Maroons were communities of enslaved
female...
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Sonia Boyce: Beyond Blackness
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Nka (2019) 2019 (45): 62–73.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Anjalie Dalal-Clayton The British artist Sonia Boyce was a central figure in the British Black Arts Movement and has in recent years achieved widespread critical acclaim within the field of British art. Although she is now known for her performative and collaborative approach to art making, she...
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Blood, Fire, and Interiority in Horace Ové’s Pressure
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Nka (2020) 2020 (47): 44–55.
Published: 01 November 2020
... the screenwriters intensify their critical approach. Journal of Contemporary African Art 47 November 202052 Nka Black British youth in Pressure assume political agency, although not all do so by the same means. Evincing this statement is the juxtaposition of Colin s consistent performance of black machismo...
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Tracing Transatlantic Slavery: In Kimathi Donkor’s UK Diaspora
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Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 108–124.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Diaspora,” 3.
media assemblages, see Celeste-Marie Bernier, Stick to the Skin: 35 Ibid.
Representing the Body, Memory, and History in Fifty Years of African 36 Quoted in Menezes, “Retelling History,” n.p.
American and Black British Art (1965–2015) (Berkeley: University 37 Ibid.; Donkor, interview...
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Gender and Deterritorialized Identity: Sonia Boyce, Latifa Echakhch, and Zineb Sedira at the 59th Venice Biennale
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 74–87.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Then, in 2022, Sonia Boyce, Zineb Sedira, and Latifa Echakhch made history for their multimedia art installations in the National Pavilions of Britain, France, and Switzerland in the 59th Venice Biennale. Boyce s parents migrated from former British colonies Barbados and British Guiana; Sedira s parents came...
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UNTIMELY MEDITATIONS: REFLECTIONS ON THE BLACK AUDIO FILM COLLECTIVE
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Nka (2004) 2004 (19): 38–45.
Published: 01 May 2004
... and machine culture.
The Last Angel of History, 1995, BAFC Films Notes
1 Kobena Mercer, "Ethnicity and Internationality: New British Art...
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Black Visual Culture: Modernity and Postmodernity
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Nka (2001) 2001 (13-14): 120.
Published: 01 May 2001
.... But all theories, including her own,
implicit in this formulation of bear critique undermines the
black British art was the notion...
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Denis Williams’s London
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Nka (2019) 2019 (45): 18–33.
Published: 01 November 2019
... into Textiles (1953). Williams, however, is absent from canonical his- tories of British modern art.4 The histories of black British artists in postwar Britain is an understudied, yet critical, period for comprehending their signifi- cance on the construction of the avant-garde. My objective in this article...
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Who’s Zoomin’ Who?: The Eyes of Donyale Luna
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 14–21.
Published: 01 November 2016
... Rauschenberg, and
Earrings for twen, Luna had already appeared on socialite Signora Gianni Agnelli), Avedon included
the covers of Queen, Harper’s Bazaar, and British photographs of two especially striking African
Vogue—the first black woman to attain this dis- Americans: the remarkable high school...
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