...Julia Kim Werts Throughout the mid-twentieth century, Ethiopia experienced a period of rapid modernization that affected the ways in which the Ethiopian people—particularly those in the capital city of Addis Ababa—navigated the shifting world around them. Their relationship with a modernizing urban...

... fully, "When I set out to write this Continuity and Change: brief essay about a time we Ethiopians Three Generations prefer to forget...

... of the paintings as an interrogation and metabolization of violence and the colonial sublime. His passing is a profound loss to the infrastructure and possibilities of contempo- rary thought and aesthetics. Julie Mehretu is an Ethiopian American artist. 134 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 48 May 2021...

... Solomon Deressa Skunder Boghossian is not only the quintessential Ethiopian painter to come along since Ethiopia's glorious 18th century Gonderine era, he is also the first heir to all of Ethiopia's art traditions. And at the international level of art, Skunder ranks...

...• tures the imagination and articulates modes and patterns of thinking in pro• ducing alternative narratives to Ethiopian history. The work reflects on the social facts of Ethiopian moderni• ty, encapsulating modernity's experi• ence and perception. It addresses • Tired ploughs, pastel...

... to You, 33–50. several books and catalogues: Ethiopian Passages: 14. Ikem Stanley Okoye, “Nka Roundtable II: Contemporary Contemporary Art from the Diaspora (2003), In African Art History and the Scholarship,” moderated by Chika...

... of ship between Ethiopian Orthodox and celebrates what Mthethwa described this journal, Michael Godby described Jesuit Roman Catholic art and archi- as men who “dare to be different.”7 Mthethwa’s sensitive, near-­medicinal tecture in sixteenth- and seventeenth- But different to whom? The Iscotch...

...Elizabeth W. Giorgis Ethiopian artist Dawit Abebe’s Jerba paintings were first exhibited in Addis Ababa in 2015. Jerba , a word that means “back” or “background,” is a series of mixed media and acrylic paintings concerned with historical memory and the political and cultural accounts attending...

..., Oklahoma, has had an important impact on contemporary Ethiopian art. The historic development of Ethiopian...

.... Atnafu's art Ethiopian woman who grew up in Addis Ababa, reflects such qualities and more. Her work is the immersed as a child in a mythical Old Testament n i i i M l| i nn i u product of a rich heritage and a wealth of experience...

... Julia Kim Werts n recent years a very particular image of the reign have enlivened Ethiopia’s past.2 Revealing Ethiopian monarchy has emerged and estab- a country that adapted and survived on its own I lished itself in popular Western visual culture. terms...

... of displacement, by showing photographic representation of Ethiopian modernity structured around Muluneh’s invocation of her personal history and reference to Ethiopia’s many ethnic groups. For the purpose of clarifying the term “modern,” this assignation refers to the demarcation of time in Ethiopia’s history...

... Ethiopian iconography symbol- ized what art historians call the rever- sal gaze philosophy, which suggests that it is not only the viewers who observe paintings, but also the paint- ings that observe the viewers. This re- versal of the gaze, where the painting looks back and perhaps even hypno- tizes...

...Elleni (Centime) Zeleke This article examines how the Ethiopian Swedish artist Loulou Cherinet portrays the construction of gender and nation as a balancing act between men and women, local and international forces. In particular, the essay focuses on how she forces her audience to confront...

... in collaboration with local Ethiopian welders. The authors also bring Wosene’s work into conversation with some of the broader artistic movements that have used script “against itself.” Copyright © 2012 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2012 Visual Poetry/ Performing Script The Art of Wosene...

... bells expands into an array of colourful rence recalled how much of his life has glows; it feels like the interior of an been dominated by war (he was born Ethiopian...

... was persuaded to write on the one Ethiopian movie that had left a priceless impres• sion on my being. While I enjoyed reading Matthew DeBord's arti...

... work Blood is Not Fresh Water , a documentary-style biographical portrait about his grandfather, a leading Ethiopian historian. The conversation takes us on a journey through Ethiopia’s past and provides an in-depth look at Eshetu’s most important works to date, including Till Death Us Do Part...

... Publications BENDING HISTORY Maaza Mengiste n 2010 I went to Rome on a fellowship to research who stare at my Ethiopian face might connect me my second novel, set during the 1935 Fascist to those photographs distributed freely by a propa- invasion of Ethiopia and the war and brief occu...

... Negro” identity and singles out for particular concern the construction of Black womanhood circa 1921 atop a racialized and gendered foundation of “Egyptian” and “Ethiopian/Nubian” as contested discursive formations. Considering the manifold genealogies of Fuller’s sculpture and its politics...