...Michael Godby Copyright © 2000 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2000 Dismantling the Symbolic GideoStructuren o f AfrikaneMenderr Nationaliss Beloofdm e Land' I...

...Tamar Garb This essay looks at the way in which the history of South Africa is imprinted in representations of place. It examines images of the land as sites of inscription, exploring the residue of deep colonial history as well as the more immediate past of apartheid on the signs and signifiers...

...Karen E. Milbourne The exhibition Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa opened at the National Museum of African Art and Enid A. Haupt Garden, Smithsonian Institution, on Earth Day (April 22) 2013 and has been extended through February 23, 2014. Curator Karen E...

...Monique Kerman Propelled by the sometimes opportunistic, sometimes desperate desire for better living conditions, migrants leave one land to occupy another. This act is inherently transgressive; whether this transgression is justified as “progress” or used as fodder for persecution depends on who...

...Edwar al-Kharrat; Ila Al Amam Only a few traces of Egyptian Francophone writers exist among the pages of old, outdated books and anthologies. Even though Albert Cossery, Ahmed Rassim, Georges Henein, Joyce Mansour, and Edmond Jabès were stranded in the land and language of diaspora, they stayed...

..., Mirror, Lens , inspired by Samuel R. Delany’s landmark science fiction novel Dhalgren . While Harris’s large-scale Mylar-and-light installations often refer to the Light and Space artists of her native California, to Robert Smithson, to Land Art, and to minimalism and various other areas of art history...

...Susan Vogel This thoughtful one-person exhibition by the art historian Yukiya Kawaguchi, in the ethnographic museum in Osaka, lands at the intersection of art and ethnology, Africa and internationalism. The exhibition is masterfully curated and beautifully installed, but the premise stated...

...Salah M. Hassan This article contemplates the life and work of the Oxford-based South African artist and activist Gavin Jantjes, born in 1948 when apartheid officially became the law of the land in South Africa with the National Party’s election to power. Because Jantjes’s understanding of his role...

... the twentieth century, the Missouri River The place-based project Cherry River, created basin was extensively developed for irrigation, flood by artist Mary Ellen Strom and Native American control, and hydroelectric power. About one-fourth researcher Shane Doyle, addressed the question, of agricultural land...

... Wangechi Mutu s Ecofeminist Vision in The End of Eating Everything Chika Okeke-Agulu Using land, either as subject matter or material in my work, is a way for me to connect to and re-draw power from the fertile land of my childhood. Wangechi Mutu, The Power of Earth in My Work H ere is how Wangechi Mutu...

... relationships was also used to advance the claims to land were different from other people because of that govern its functioning." And they are and other resources of present-day com• entirely unequivocal in affirming...

..., of all possibility of rootedness) little by little suffers the landscape, earns its Nature, knows its land. Édouard Glissant, Poetic Intention Passionately to live the landscape, to release it from the indistinct, to delve into it, to ignite it amongst us. Édouard Glissant, Poetic Intention Mario Lewis...

... e Lands of the Ends of the Endsof the e Lands , 2009. © Jo Ractliffe. Ractliffe. ©Jo , 2009...

... into motion. As Ibn Arabi had traveled the land of man, the exhibit in his honor was also to be an itin• erant one. Starting out in Damascus, the place...

... reflects on his father s generation: The people from my father s generation, when they came to Britain, they had this thought that it was going to be a land of milk and honey, and how everything was going to be so much better now. Land of Milk and Honey II is about this because I made glass cases...

... in "authentic Cape Dutch" style surmounts the shorn of the makeshift operations through which the dispossessed lived off the snout of a hill. To the right, the bulldozed soil of the mixed-race District land when the land had been rent by apartheid. Following this graphic Six area ramps up...

... is Beautiful" look of Edwardian layers of clothes, and with hats and umbrellas self-empowerment black movements the 1960s and 1970s, Ofili's and parasols, they came to look at the diggings for the idealized world is no promised land for tourists. The Afro couple...

... by that assert to tioners high- four these among ties andcontextual generational, conceptual, the mines cleverly land Cope Wilson. Fred and Simpson, Lorna Ligon, Glenn Green, 1993Renée to by 1991 from installations four on it ing center study, ambitious this to ance nu...

.... first achieved international celebration, La piste From this culturally composite constellation of d’atterrissage (The Landing Strip, 1997–99), endeav- experience and from the official vista of high culture ors to achieve synthesis in both registers without he absorbed through museum...

.... The lettering national perspective to an international perspective. was to be incorporated into the composition as a part All Black people, regardless of their land base, have of the visual statement and not as a headline. the same problem: the control of land and econom- C. The visual statement...