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Nka (2014) 2014 (34): 4–7.
Published: 01 May 2014
... forms of com-
and-true genealogies of conceptual, performative, munitarian identity are increasingly frayed and to
and political art. Indeed, the reframing of such gene- model possibilities for the development of new forms
alogies is arguably more important than ever in light of black art...
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Nka (2018) 2018 (42-43): 264–281.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Lydie Diakhaté This article aims to introduce Melvin Edwards’s career and explore, through his work in public art, his ongoing dialogue between his global black consciousness and conceptual art. Edwards is a pioneer and prominent artist in the history of contemporary African American art...
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Nka (2010) 2010 (27): 100–107.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Catherine Bernard This essay analyzes the work of a contemporary black artist who reinvents the human body, searching for its limits in works that transform and recycle materials and concepts while challenging viewers’ perceptions. As a link between conceptual art, arte povera , and postmodern...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (29): 8–21.
Published: 01 November 2011
... the textualization of gesture and process . This antitext struggle is brought into close relation with the often unrecognized conceptual art movement at the core of the Black Arts movement. The AfriCOBRA tenet of “mimesis at mid-point” leads the author to a reconsideration of the explicit theorizing, during...
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Nka (2012) 2012 (30): 114–129.
Published: 01 May 2012
... waves of conceptual art. Copyright © 2012 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2012 Melvin Edwards
in Conversation with
Manthia Diawara
and Lydie Diakhaté
Journal of Contemporary African Art • 30...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 40–52.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Przemysław Strożek This article focuses on conceptual practices by Moroccan artist Abdelkader Lagtaâ, whose early 1970s work, created as a part of Polish conceptual milieus in Łódź and Warsaw, remains undocumented in art-historical scholarship. The author rediscovers Lagtaâ’s practices as part...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 152–166.
Published: 01 May 2020
... resist unwanted readings of erotic pleasure in their works. Incorporating her analysis of these works into her conceptualization of images of black female nudity in art, the author proposes that a robust attention be given the visual image in the rising conversation on pleasure in African studies. ©...
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Nka (2021) 2021 (48): 70–95.
Published: 01 May 2021
... model” that Enwezor conceptualized for Documenta11 to a small but internationally acclaimed gallery in Copenhagen: the Center for Art on Migration Politics (CAMP). The article falls into three parts. The first part introduces CAMP and the Danish context for migration, before the authors discuss core...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (28): 114–129.
Published: 01 May 2011
... and Conceptual art, contains a beautiful sense of dignity. His enduring
installation and institutional critique . . . counters belief that the objects/materials at his disposal hold
notions of absence, longing and loss with the kind important histories also endows his often monu-
of ‘wounded’ and self...
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Nka (2019) 2019 (45): 88–98.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of wit, Rodney was, until his death in 1998 from complications related to sickle cell disease, one of the most compelling artists to come out of the Black Arts Movement of 1980s Britain. From X-rays of his cells to tiny sculptures made from his own skin, Rodney created conceptual self-portraits of his...
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Nka (2001) 2001 (13-14): 106–113.
Published: 01 May 2001
...—that is, between the concrete Elsabet Giorgis
and the abstract. Hassan Musa has managed to create a formula
of relationships: connecting verbal and visual modes of communi•
cation by way of a process of double abstraction. His performance My intention was to spawn a conversation on conceptual art...
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Nka (2019) 2019 (44): 38–50.
Published: 01 May 2019
... What Happened and I Cried documentary photography appropriation conceptual art ...
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Nka (2024) 2024 (55): 44–60.
Published: 01 November 2024
.... However, the conventional knowledge base for telsem art in Western art-historical provisions has been cabalistic. Modernism, as a field of study, persists in classifying the sophisticated forms, exuberant colors, lines, shapes, and conceptually complex arrangement of telsem paintings in categories...
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Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 126–139.
Published: 01 November 2017
... paintings of young men inspired by his African surroundings. This essay traces the impact of these experiences on the art of Kehinde Wiley, particularly his aesthetic sensibility and conceptual mindset. Wiley embraced the art of Africa as a reference, posing his subjects after traditional sculpture...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 72–82.
Published: 01 May 2020
... multiracial and multireligious composition. The article traces this dynamic around the example of the non-European collections in Berlin’s Museum Island and the future Humboldt Forum, conceptualized as the world’s largest “universal museum.” The narratives through which this art is integrated into Europe’s...
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Nka (1998) 1998 (8): 18–23.
Published: 01 May 1998
... with
franklin sirmans
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Although she refers to this moment in contemporary art as her 15 minutes, Adrian Piper is a
seminal artist whose work spans the last thirty years, though she still hasn't received her due.
Her brand of conceptual art, like that of contemporaries Ana...
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Nka (2017) 2017 (41): 30–42.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Jeffrey C. Stewart This article problematizes the discourse of transnationalism and suggests an alternative conceptual frame, TransAfrican, by looking at the art of two understudied artists, Winold Reiss and Romare Bearden. A close reading of a select number of their artworks reveals interesting...
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Nka (2019) 2019 (44): 144–157.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Silvi Naçi Rico Gatson is a cultural producer. Long before other artists, his work embodied the pursuit of light and pushed the boundaries of modernity by building new structures for understanding and representing black bodies in contemporary dialogue and the art market. Each piece commands...
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Nka (2010) 2010 (27): 122–125.
Published: 01 November 2010
... provided both a vehicle for the artist’s most visually stunning works and a panoptical framework, illuminating the aesthetic and underlying conceptual affinities that subtly bind together the artist’s discrete endeavors. Copyright © 2010 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2010...
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Nka (2012) 2012 (31): 36–45.
Published: 01 November 2012
... that the artist’s work leverages the expressionist possibilities of identity, figuration, and history on the abstract legacies of linguistic conceptualism. A continuous examination of representation grounded in the implacably figural substrate of race, gender, sexuality, and history, Ligon’s art highlights...
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