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...W. Ian Bourland This article briefly reviews Wangechi Mutu’s recent show Hunt Bury Flee , held at the end of 2010 at Gladstone Gallery in New York. The author locates the strength of the work and analyzes it through the lens of surrealist practices and recent work by other contemporary African...

...W. Ian Bourland This article examines two recent projects by the Brooklyn-based artist Brendan Fernandes at the Guggenheim Museum and Art in General. It argues that Fernandes’s practice is important because it shows the language-power relations by which cultural identification is produced...

...Ian Bourland This essay reviews and critically contextualizes a recent group exhibition at University of Massachusetts Amherst. The show was part of a larger program considering the legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois. It featured artists such as Carrie Mae Weems, Julie Mehretu, LaToya Ruby Frazier...

...Ian Merkel This article is a critical reading of the Franco-Algerian filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb’s films and their reception in France, Algeria, and the United States. Whereas Days of Glory , which deals with African soldiers who fought on behalf of France in World War II, was praised for its...

...Ian Merkel This review provides both context for and aesthetic analysis of Idrissou Mora-Kpai’s latest film, Indochina, Traces of a Mother . Starting with a brief synthesis of historical work dealing with colonial soldiers fighting on behalf of France, it attempts to ground the multiple spaces...

...Ian Bourland This article considers recent films by the artist John Akomfrah (b. 1957, Ghana). It argues that Vertigo Sea , The Airport , and Purple exemplify a new phase of black British art production. While building on the methods and themes that characterize his time with the Black Audio Film...

...Ian Berry Copyright © 1996 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1996 PROJECT MADAME COSTELLO'S BALL Ian Berry ...

...Roderick A. Ferguson © 2020 by Nka Publications 2020 RE V IE W S Journal of Contemporary African Art 47 November 2020136 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-8719729 © 2020 by Nka Publications BLOODFLOWERS: ROTIMI FANI-KAYODE, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND THE 1980s W. IAN BOURLAND DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2019 W...

... A. Bailey, Ian Baucom, and Sonia Boyce, who collaborated to edit Shades of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain and write its foreword, beginnings are notoriously un- stable things.9 Responding to the editors assertion, this article has as its central concern the complex question of beginnings...

..., Ian van Coller, and Sue Williamson. The exhibition CON/TEXT and I.D./OLOGY are a brought together six artists pair of exhibitions organized by working in a diverse range of Axis Gallery in New York...

... to Gazing heavenward for a celebrate that memory. new star approaching Organized by Onix Commu• ian leader Julius Nyerere...

... theorists to recognize and understand the decision to abandon his doctoral work in 1956 the political danger incarnated by the “authoritar- in order to immerse himself in the construction ian populism” of Margaret Thatcher and, no less so, of the New Left. A response to the three political Ronald...

... how black people have been ian existence in a story from which the black body conditioned to exist, but also how black people is painfully absent. When a work of art depicts a have been conditioned to reflect upon themselves. figure (mythical, biblical, allegorical) the narra- tive is identified...

...." ian and military dictatorships in child is the rotten apple in the bar• Clearly, Kodi is no exception: His the Sudan came with empty prom• rel of the tribe." work is a willful attempt to open...

.... Black Culture in the 1920s, published by Thames and Her rst major contribution to the study and Hudson in 2000. In the following year she edited Fi y research of Jamaican art was her collaborative work Years, Fi y Artists (Ian Randle Publishers, Jamaica, with Kim Robinson, Jamaican Art...

... utilized flat, stuck- ian government-owned culture whelming abundance of grass and dom to discover, reinvent or redi• together mat surfaces for her organ—National Commission for mud scattered over a wide area rect thoughts...

... enroll in classes and seminars offered by faculty (such as Ian Bourland, Georgetown University, and Monique Kerman) teaching classes that might at any given time touch on, or focus on, modern and contemporary African, African American, or African diaspora art history. Regarding the texts assembled...

... to reflect on how, in parallel to the social, political, of history.3 Enthusiasm is a reflection on the Kant­ and artistic manifestos that the Reader brilliantly ian concept of the sublime that here, rather than an documents, there were — and still are — cultural ini- aesthetic feeling...

... eighteenth-century period costumes from Europe and the East, and the score was in traditional operatic Ital• ian. Donkor's sublime video ambigu• ously layered multiple traditions upon Spring...

... feminists’ phies of the two artists differ—Sirry trained in Paris ian equivalent of the contemporary Western Mrs. trast to the conservative feminists’ cult of domes - ideas about women’s emancipation. and returned to her native Cairo, where she still Consumer—by the print media, particularly...