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From Camera to Canvas: The Case of Patrice Lumumba and Congolese Popular Painting
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Nka (2020) 2020 (47): 82–93.
Published: 01 November 2020
... to Canvas F riday, December 2, 1960, was the fi nal time that Patrice Émery Lumumba, the fi rst dem-ocratically elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was ever seen on camera. He was assassinated a little over a month later, on January 17, 1961. In one of the images re- cording his last...
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Trade Roots
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Nka (2015) 2015 (36): 108–111.
Published: 01 May 2015
... for Canvas maga-
lidi ya Homu would be had it been the African artists, it perhaps had less of a zine, the premier magazine for art and
sole showcase in the space (as, indeed, visual synergy with them, although the culture in the Middle East. She is also
it was at Carroll/Fletcher). The artist sensory...
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Faith Ringgold’s Die : The Riot and Its Reception
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Nka (2015) 2015 (36): 28–39.
Published: 01 May 2015
... devastated Detroit and Newark, NJ, she painted Die expressly for the show. The wall-size canvas depicts an interracial cast of clean-cut antagonists trying to kill one another. Although the painting represented the kind of large-scale, politically motivated figuration that had been out of favor since...
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Vulnerable to Violence: Jeff Donaldson’s Ala Shango and the Erasure of Diasporic Difference
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Nka (2015) 2015 (36): 40–47.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of a double-headed axe of Shango, the Yoruba god of fire, lightning, and thunder. The axe, wielded by the composition’s central figure, shatters the pictorial plane of the canvas, which Donaldson variously labeled G lass , S heet , and M ade in USA. I argue that, through his appropriation of African art...
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Beatrice Wanjiku
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Nka (2025) 2025 (56): 88–101.
Published: 01 May 2025
... Wanjiku, Untitled, 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 70 cm. © Beatrice Wanjiku Okeke-Agulu Nka 89 The Strangeness of My Madness, 2013. Mixed media on canvas, 100 x 150 cm. © Beatrice Wanjiku what Stuart Hall once described as the brute facts of human history, which after all have disfigured the lives...
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Posing the Black Painter Kerry James Marshall’s Portraits of Artists’ Self-Portraits
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 40–51.
Published: 01 November 2016
...
wielding the brush, often in front of a canvas on
which the depiction of his or her self-portrait is in
process but unfinished. Marshall shows us the act
of self...
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Owusu-Ankomah Microcron Begins
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Nka (2015) 2015 (36): 112–115.
Published: 01 May 2015
... - bris
color,and tone—the paint canvas. on
what...
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Monumental Bodies: The Work of Dawit Abebe
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Nka (2022) 2022 (51): 48–60.
Published: 01 November 2022
... that reflexively recovers the past to reflect on a tumultuous and uncertain present. 48 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 51 November 2022 DOI 10.1215/10757163-10127153 © 2022 by Nka Publications Dawit Abebe, Background 1, 2014. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 33 x 33 cm. © the artist Giorgis Nka 49...
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TRACES AND ECHOES: Mixed Media Paintings of KALIDOU SY
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Nka (2009) 2009 (24): 82–91.
Published: 01 May 2009
... to the American continent, my
Kalidou Sy, 1995, Goree, Senegal. Photo: Magaye Niang.
Journal of Contemporary African Art
Man from the South, 2001. Acrylic, clay, and burlap on canvas, 44 x 37 in.
Collection of Eileen Julien. Photo by Michael Cavanagh and Kevin Montague...
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Ars and Techne: Jack Whitten Retrospective
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Nka (2017) 2017 (40): 16–27.
Published: 01 June 2017
...,
and African American culture.
Journal of Contemporary African Art • 40 • May 2017
16 • Nka
DOI 10.1215/10757163-3885907 © 2017 by Nka Publications
Jack Whitten, Flying High: Betty Carter, 1998. Acrylic on canvas, 106.5 x 84.3 in. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth, New York...
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ON A KNIFE EDGE: PENNY SIOPIS
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Nka (2009) 2009 (25): 96–105.
Published: 01 November 2009
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and exciting. This unpredictability creates a vital
tension or energy between form and formlessness,
balancing them on a knife edge. Penny Siopis , Twins , 2009. Oil, ink, and glue on canvas, 100 x 100 cm...
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IMAGES OF WRITING, WRITING OF IMAGES: The Work of Fathi Hassan
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Nka (2001) 2001 (15): 30–37.
Published: 01 November 2001
... on canvas, 100 x 70 cm.
30 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art
WRITING OF
IMAGES
Eriberto Eulisse
The Work of Fathi Hassan
istonans...
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Reclaiming History: A Visual Essay
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Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 196–201.
Published: 01 November 2016
...
Elizabeth Colomba, The Ants, 2011. Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in. Based on
a mythological theme of Psyche and Eros. Courtesy the artist. © Elizabeth
Colomba
Colomba Nka • 197...
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Denyse Thomasos: Just Beyond
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 158–162.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., Saskatchewan), the retrospective (the Denyse Thomasos, Untitled (Self-Portrait), 1984 85. Acrylic on canvas, 121 × 91.5 cm. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Gift of Gail and Gerald Luciano in memory of Denyse Thomasos, 2022. © Estate of Denyse Thomasos and Olga Korper Gallery 158 Nka Journal of Contemporary...
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GANI ODUTUKUN: ACCIDENT AND DESIGN
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Nka (2001) 2001 (13-14): 66–73.
Published: 01 May 2001
....
Spring / Summer 2001 Nka-67
Gani Odutukun, Columns and Partitions, 1994, Oil on canvas, 86 x 100 cm.
financed in the West, bringing with them a lot of post-colonial,
neo-primitivist...
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Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick, Frick Madison
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Nka (2024) 2024 (54): 128–131.
Published: 01 May 2024
... works to allow visitors a chance to understand their connections. This combination of unexpected pairings marks an exciting illumination of the Frick s masterpieces, showing how modern they are in form or subject mat- Barkley L. Hendricks, Lawdy Mama, 1969. Oil and gold leaf on canvas, 53 3/4 x 36 1/4...
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America Black: Faith Ringgold’s Paintings of the Late 1960s
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Nka (2011) 2011 (29): 50–61.
Published: 01 November 2011
... of Contemporary African Art 2011 Faith Ringgold, US America Black, 1969. Oil on stretched canvas, 60 × 84 in. © Faith Ringgold
America
Black
Faith Ringgold’s
Black Light Series
Journal of Contemporary African Art • 29 • Fall 2011
50 • Nka
DOI 10.1215/10757163...
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Jilali Gharbaoui and Decolonization
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Nka (2023) 2023 (53): 44–55.
Published: 01 November 2023
... to the space of production, and the political stakes of abstraction. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Nka Publications 2023 Morocco modernism abstraction gestural abstraction decolonization Jilali Gharbaoui and Jilali Gharbaoui, Composition, 1960. Oil on canvas, 97.3 x 162.7 cm. Image...
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The Paintings of Henok Melkamzer: Telsem Symbols and Imagery
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Nka (2024) 2024 (55): 44–60.
Published: 01 November 2024
... this underlying difference in art-historical studies for which the paintings of Henok Melkamzer, Henok Melkamzer, Untitled (detail), 2023. Acrylic on canvas, 300 x 130 cm. Courtesy Sharjah Art Foundation 44 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 55 November 2024 DOI 10.1215/10757163-11507490 © 2024 by Nka...
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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
... UK Diaspora series, 2007. Mixed media on canvas, 54 x 45 x 6 cm. Courtesy the artist and International Slavery Museum,
Liverpool, UK. © Kimathi Donkor
Bernier Nka...
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