...-prints from The End of an Era (2010), The Brave Ones (2010), and Hope Chest (2012), represents the work of an artist whose images have become iconic in both postapartheid South Africa and the international art world. The End of an Era ’s still lifes attest to the grooming habits, romances, and interests...

... strokes his flat chest gently and repeatedly, articulating his Jocelyn Taylor, Armide 2000, video installation, 2000...

... military stance add. Your women, they suggest with a smile and of arms across chest. And there, that foot, do you nod, leaving me to finish their thought. My stomach see it taking up space, claiming more land than is tightens. necessary...

... with the writings of C.L.R. James, Man less chest and his nipple stands out pieces in the show was at the Studio Cultural Center's town house was the...

..., crisscrossed her flashlight up to the buff bare chest of a with the reality of AIDS, civil and ethnic war, black male. She appears fully, and properly of inquiry into the drought and famine, and re-articulated...

... exhibition space was dotted with notes in Arabic, faceless portraits of people with labels on their chests and bundles of cabling beautifully taped but connected to nothing...

... tongues I have in my mouth never lie even when they tell two contradictory facts. The two hearts I Translated and edited by Salah Hassan have in my chest never betray even when they beat for several...

... contrast, Bearden, at a time of intense interna- The seemingly haphazard list of the fifteen artists is tional focus on abstraction in art, moved between illustrated with a caricature of Lewis and Bearden abstract and figural work in a range of media. Spiral standing chest to chest in the lower-­right...

... chest. The model’s right arm extends into a closed fist symbolic of Black Power or dance moves, while the title repeats a common hip-hop 15 On Top of the World, 2008. Oil on canvas, 72 x 60 in. Courtesy the artist. © refrain about success. These...

... same issues Kure explored in the Woman Series. The works depict women wearing deep burgundy burkas, but again Kure stops short when it comes to putting a face on her observations. In one image the woman's face is a white void that narrows at the chin and extends over her chest in a slender...

... (1,074 men and women by 1902) brought to teach Guantanamo, where prisoners have been detained English to Filipino schoolchildren and paid for without representation, recourse, or even charges with the war chest as a key part of the overall paci• for almost seven years.7 The...

...- less. That is, the image is cropped just at chest level, revealing only the midsection and, at the center of the frame, a large semi-erect uncircumcised penis...

... aluminum coil that tightly grip the the cultural needs of members of this 800,000-strong community. skin. Anatsui's chainsaw prowled into the bowels of the piece, This museum is an exquisite site, one that has the amplitude of chopping off the log from the chest to the...

... just thi s sor t of deeper meaning? The kind of knowledge tha t no amount of superficial scratching can bring to light ? Is the shirt that he wears in an early self-portrait mere decorum? It is no less than a lesson in contempo rary histor y worn across his chest, though there is no brash...

...-­ the historical trauma and the cultural production oriented conceptual art in these books that were of African Americans. Henry Louis Gates Jr. aptly performing antitextuality. The inclusion of the refers to it as “the ultimate treasure chest of the black images allowed the Black Arts movement to...

... hung as if about to bump chests. They are far boards called Lukasa, where the configurations of enough apart to give the impression that the view• beads, shells, and iron pins codify historical events er could carefully edge into the space between the and political roles in a...

... typically associated with European royalty. The gold a photographic one, a simple gesture that alludes cross around his neck and the emblem on his chest to something that is beyond the African tradition are lost in the busy and complex embroidery on his of representation. As a painting, this...

... hand and cat’s head. represent the spirits of ancestors, and here, the con- A bird’s feather protrudes from the back of her head nection seems apparent.5 like a wing from Mercury’s helmet. She has the chest of a man but below the waist she is composed At the End of a hornet’s nest, swollen like a...

... and child, cradling the infant in her arms, post-Reconstruction South—of which Mary Turner drawing it towards her chest. Fuller emphasizes this stood as one of countless victims—further perpetu- protective gesture in the way Turner holds her child ated this process of ungendering. That the mob saw...

... of formality befitting the uniform and the occa- sion, yet the very concept of “uniform” is belied by each soldier’s countenance and bearing. Attached to the chest of the seated figure is a small target, and to either side of him hang fabric scraps pierced by nails. Important yet understated...