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... of extraordinary incidents in the life of the photograph and its reception. These incidents reveal how photographic representations of expressive black culture and people are often received and interpreted by viewers across the lines of race and class in problematic ways. The essay also connects the reception...

... and Langley in Chicago made by the Organization of Black American Culture that expressed the ethos of black liberation. In looking at the relationship between these two particular events, Crawford considers how the photographic representation of gatherings of black people and congresses is significant...

...Daniel Widener The visual arts played a critical role in the cultural awakening that began with the Second World War and flourished in the aftermath of the Watts riots. In searching for new means of expression rooted in and relevant to the communities from which they came, black artists based...

...Cheryl Finley Throughout her life Loïs Mailou Jones admired African art and culture. But it was through the mask—its spiritual significance, theatrical expression, cultural importance, and emotive possibilities—that she found herself as an artist, designer, and educator. With a career buttressed...

... to an insurrection in progress to sets of eyes expressing horror, terror, or surprise. Through these images, the cultural life of the lowly implement is given the most dramatic range of fillips. [email protected] © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 Haitian Revolution Caribbean history...

... im­portant cultural moment at which many black art ‘made in America the artist would have con- Americans first embraced their African heritage as curred with Schuyler that it was indeed “hokum” an ancestral legacy worthy of celebration, Countée that this art should have its thematic basis in Africa...

... the culture of artifice retained, composed, and hidden. Blackness is less underpinning the projection of subjecthood. a characteristic than a form of expression, carried As I have already suggested, Hendricks’s use sometimes easily and sometimes ambiguously.22 of the language of the Grand Manner...

... a “complex commodity” dandy, the street is his home, where performance to adequately define.5 Being elusively enigmatic, is inscribed in his (sometimes her) signifying black style is more about who or what expresses practices as a “cultural sphere” of representation.9 style at a particular moment...

... of times, in their own voices. more marginalized cultures as more ethnic and in Post-Black represents but one iteration of a a sense more "authentic" based upon their limited departure from expected forms of expression contamination by Western influence. This politi• associated with blackness...

... Walker’s chaotic, sexually excessive living among whites. Already whites and blacks tableaux to the underworld fantasies of Hieronymus were mixing, and a mulatto population was emerg- Bosch, it is interesting to locate her expression in ing.”4 Additionally, a black slave population offered a spiritual...

... schemed, about black culture using structuralist interpre- the manifesto drafted. To steam up in resentment tive strategies. I was committed to approaching the because you were somewhere else at the time may be design of black expression from both an evocative paranoid and irrational...

... It is through her dual role 2 as performing artist and model that Maudelle actress Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for por• employed an expressive strategy that influenced traying the stereotypical character of "Mammy" in the development of black...

... spiritually uplifting aways among Black Chicagoans before and during AfriCOBRA: is/became Liberated 100 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 30 • Spring 2012 Liberation is impossible if we fail to see ourselves tors who felt that their visual expression was defi­ in more positive...

... and innovative techniques of painting that demonstrate the depths of his commitment to gestural abstraction as his primary mode of creative expression. Attentive to shifting terrain in technology, culture, and African American history during his lifetime, Whitten’s work participates in a memorial project...

... the mythic unity and naivete of Afrocentricity and Black Nationalism, opting instead for the hustler, playa, pimp culture, the "money rules everything...

... expressiveness, particularly the assumption that black culture is predominantly resistant. This characterization is so ordinary that it ends up simplifying blackness. . . . The problem here is not expressiveness per se, but that black expressiveness is so tethered to what is public and to a discourse...

... to question and create associations. to others, their actions are in service of personal Suburbia also avoids overt declarations of race. expression and cultural transformation, and not While the series presents an underrecognized divi- just that of black participants, but all who enter sion of the black...

... should be as der whether most of the expression I observe in Negro Negro artists in the struggle for civil rights. painting might not be only reflections of a dominant At first glance the issue seemed clear enough, but culture and not truly indigenous. The Negro artist it provoked many...

... Albert Barnes.4 These African forms are read as authentic and unproblem- long-standing links between African American atic expressions of African American identity and art and African art history in American artistic cultural difference. But this feedback can also create and academic circles...

... with the representations of blackness as it is informed by Black Arts Movement emerging discourses in the fields of black art and visual culture from gender, sexuality, and feminist perspectives. They also...