... during the mid-1980s there were certainly many Eddie Chambers is a curator and writer of art other such tragedies that spoke of a somewhat frac- criticism. Since the early 1980s, he has been involved tious or ill-at-ease Black British presence, the 1985 in the visual arts, particularly the practice...

..., or compel, us to look again at the powerful medium Eddie Chambers is a curator and writer of art of graffiti and the ways in which, in cities such as criticism. Since the early 1980s, he has been involved Cairo, the graffiti artist articulates and documents in the visual arts, particularly the practice...

..., in Contemporary Literature and Art (2007) and 6 the coeditor of Early Modern Visual Culture: Artistic Crossings of the Black Atlantic, in Williamstown, Massachusetts...

...• unabashedly feminine part of the Ha'irn Steinbach. In the early 1990s, she tering the light to magnificently piece, a dash of lightness. By introduc• took up her duties at the Musee de enhance the Mediterranean rosette, ing this element...

... address a standard text of the early civil rights movement, Black Like Me , by the white author John Howard Griffin. Ligon and Wilson’s responses come...

.... Eckstein until, at the end of the ments of gender and race undergo shifting patterns. fourth film, Soho recovers his wife and they appear The principal early focus is the titanic white male reunited in their own little pool of blue water. conflict between Soho Eckstein and Felix Teitle...

... to need sistent per his of and Nation” “Rainbow the of days early exhilarating the of both rainbow- Producing did...

...) and co- 8 Isaac Julien’s website (httpisaacjulien.com) makes a tech- nical distinction between films and installations. Whereas Look- editor of Early Modern Visual Culture: Represen- ing for Langston is classified as film,Paradise...

...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...

...Mona Khazindar; Unity Woodman Georges Henein (1914–73) was a Francophone Egyptian writer who introduced surrealism to the artistic and intellectual milieu of Cairo as early as 1937. The author traces Henein’s engagement with the tenets of surrealism articulated by André Breton in France and his...

... 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...

...Elizabeth Robles This article proposes a rereading of the timeline of the British Black Arts Movement, and offers early work by the Pakistan-born British artist, writer, and editor Rasheed Araeen as possible starting points for reading the work of a new generation of artists who emerged...

...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...

...Dagmawi Woubshet In his long, illustrious career, James Baldwin never wrote a full book on Africa. The figure of Africa, nonetheless, was a recurring one in his corpus—a figure that would change significantly over the course of his writing. While Baldwin’s early representations of Africa follow...

... and erasures—of women artists and histories of liberation struggles. This article introduces early works by each artist as a basis for understanding how their biennale projects are decolonial and feminist in order to argue that the deterritorialized may reterritorialize—create new spaces of enunciation...

..., raised and manufactured in the U.S.” However, in the early 1930s during the artist’s Paris sojourn, Hayden painted four works that incorporate African content, including three watercolors featuring African dancers. With exaggeratedly rounded heads, elongated jawlines, grinning outsized lips...

...Hisham Aidi Hisham Aidi traces how Malcolm X—and the black freedom movement, more broadly— have become central to Muslim youth consciousness today. He traces how today, as during the early 1960s, various governments—the United States, Britain, Iran, and Saudia Arabia—have been trying...

...Manthia Diawara Manthia Diawara became a close friend of Édouard Glissant in the early 1990s. In 2008, Glissant granted Diawara permission to make a film about his ideas. The author came with his camera to the 2008 Politics of the One-World conference in Paris to speak to Glissant about the film...

...Amanda Gilvin In the early 1970s, author and president of the National Assembly of Niger Boubou Hama argued that it was Africa’s duty to save humanity. He maintained that only Africa’s spiritual humanism was capable to countering Western industrial dehumanization and environmental destruction. Hama...

... in the reportage vein in Chicago in the 1960s and early ’70s. The elder Crawford traveled to Lagos, Nigeria, in 1977 for FESTAC as part of the delegation of American artists who were invited to attend. Ten years before his FESTAC experience he had been active photographing at the Wall of Respect , a mural at 43rd...