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... the purity of painting semantics. In this interview Washington reflects on the discipline of painting, the challenges he faces as he refines his skills, and his aims as he positions himself to claim a place in the present discourse. The interview covers such topics as his heroes and what they represent, what...

...Kimberli Gant This essay explores the photographic series Queen Nanny of the Maroons (2004–5) by artist Renée Cox. In the series Cox appropriates the eighteenth-century Jamaican folk hero Queen Nanny, leader of the Windward Maroon community, and brings her into the present. Very little is known...

.... a celebration of the armed wing sibilities that even a hand- reliance on the abstract line. of the African National Congress grenade might have in the Rhode repeatedly ran towards founded on Heroes Day in 1961. context...

... of Contemporary African Art Africa might have been if Africans themselves had decided to take Glory," New York Times. 27 June 2001. charge of their destiny." Earlier in the interview Ebouaney Riding, Alan. " Lumumba: In a Mirror on Africa, a Hero Unfairly...

.... Paul MN. In 1899, Shepherd produced a collaged print of photographs titled Our Unsung Heroes or the Men Whose Names Have Been Forgotten, which he hoped to tour around the United States and abroad. It was a large half-tone picture, measuring 24 x 30 inches, with representations of five different...

... was doing History of People cabildos de nation, black mutual aid soci• recalled, "Africa is in the place where I Who Were Not Heroes. I think that the eties, and many practiced the African- grew up and it affects how I perceive derived...

... the statesmen, magnates, landowners, heroes, and supposed integrity that the logo automatically even antiheroes that are the building blocks of triggers. These are works that put signification Western history. Botha emphasizes their lack of into disarray: interior and exterior contradict each...

.... The photographs of England simultane• image of that other gendered symbol of the war, the ously recall a disturbing history and reveal what was heavily scripted hero, Jessica Lynch. obscured by the discourses of American lynching This essay examines the inverted pairing...

... and motion-picture Bamako. The characters occupy the center of the cameras to represent themselves? Did they inherit photographs like Hollywood heroes and individu• the stereotypes of Africans forged by Europeans, als who have conquered history. or did they try to find a new language? There are My...

... began working towards a Masters degree at New York University where she met Hale Woodruff, her childhood hero, famous to her for his Atlanta University murals. Woodruff showed Amos's work to The Spiral (a group of black artists who had established their careers in the 1940s and 50s) which included...

... second novel.j• "everyday heroes." Black Girl (1965) was a narrative of a colo• The 35 years that separate the films La noire de and Faat Kine nially generic blackgirl, i.e, of undetermined and insignificant is virtually coincidental with the life of the character Faat Kine, a origin, as marked...

... is in Trouble because of This Man Lumumba) Oil on cotton, 18x13" PATRICE LUMUMBA IN URBAN ART Elizabeth Harney J ean-Paul Sartre labeled Patrice Lumumba a "revolutionary without revolution, not a hero, but a mar• tyr of Pan-Africanism" (Van Lierde, 1963). His characterization underscores...

... and his timely meeting of spirits, divine and awaited delicate and inspirational brotherhood comprising of African or earthly, for their cosmos is intertwined homecoming black heroes including Biko, Soyinka, and all who have been...

... plays, and gives his name to, the doomed hero of the piece, a massive, almost iconic figure who covertly organises against...

... or another. The concept of the martyr as hero is not foreign to Arab societies; the glorification of martyrdom is an inherent aspect of Islamic culture. In the virtual world of social networks, people are free to create their own content, so they re-created a concept historically present in Islam, the cult...

.... Protestors welcome the Freedom Train from Atbara. Courtesy of the artist finality of purpose, marked by definite and definitive victory or defeat. It is a story facilitated by heroes against villains. This linear rendition encourages us to treat heroes of revolution with a metric of absolute purity...

... that tached to the bodies by transparent links, adding a breeze of over-drama to serve as heroes for her scenes. In the series, Acrobats, her heroes appear in each entity. The overall effect was archaeological. The dismemberment and 3 somersault positions...

... and wake up whenever I please, to go to bed when• frontations with the officer you show the worst of Niwam, the heroes, the most compelling charac• ever I please, and to write as late as I please...

...". Marigo is knowledge of the range and deep structures of the caught in the hype and hope, and buys a ticket. He musical heritage of Senegal, in particular, and also has a hero he literally idolizes in the poster other parts of the world, in general, especially the portrait...

... of Michael's heroes whose reference will live long in his art. Born in New York in 1963, Michael's work is a synthesis of the 1970s Black Arts Movement in which he grew up and the multiculturalism prevalent in his formative years...