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

...A’Lelia Bundles This essay examines the role A’Lelia Walker played as a fashion and social trendsetter in Harlem during the 1920s. The only daughter of early-twentieth-century hair-care-industry pioneer Madam C. J. Walker, she carved her own niche as a patron of the arts and philanthropist...

... interrogations, our anxieties, our hopes, and all our ecstasies, and who will impress me more and more as the prototype of human dignity. 7 In Martinique charmeuse de serpents, Breton also wrote about the strong impact Suzanne Césaire (Madame Césaire) had on him; he said that her presence rendered enchanting...

... spectacular power, of accomplished with Madame Hiroshima , by trans - of war grotesques where torture became entertain - piece , Madame Hiroshima , was a grotesque which the atomic bombing of Hiroshima was one forming the costume into carnivalesque, in itself ment— The Disasters of War...

... to the sophisticated, self-determining, independent; not generic, but specific; not a blackgirl, but an self-defining woman-in-control. Diouane's situation permitted African Woman, as marked by her own name, Faat Kine. her to say very little except "Viye, madame."Thus, we could view Diouane, the subject...

... • November 2016 legacy of French race-making whose use today is a tones can be found, but in this piece and the well- punishable offense. The renowned perfumer Jean- known de Creuse painting of Madame du Barry, Paul Guerlain learned this lesson the hard way in who is in the company of one such person...

... that more's black history equivalent engenders the fantastic. In one of Madame Tussauds. Appearing scene shot in a museum, De...

... knows or ca n say precisely wh en , on th is Legitime Deien se, and wh o ma y have attended the route, you leave th e so uth of th e country, its d ry meetings at th e home of Madame Paul ette Narda l, bri ghtness, its tarried beach es, its an xious insou• a committed defender of the Antillean...

... ing. And it isn't true."4 This false dualism between the Great Blacks in Wax Museum, Baltimore's purity and contamination—enacted through con• black history equivalent of Madame Tussaud's. cerns with the preservation of culture—shapes the Meanwhile, in a cameo appearance, American...

..., 10,000 slides popular during the Harlem Renaissance. Renowned of black art and black artists, 1,200 theater programs figures such as Madame C. J. Walker, Carl van of black actors and/or directors, playwrights . . . Vechten, and the Delaney Sisters opened up their 6,000 black-­and-­white photographs...

... own name with that of W.E.B. DuBois and Madame C miserly minister of finance who apparently practiced the art. The Walker, an early entrepreneur in the black beauty industry and inven• word was brought to England and popularized by the most famous tor of the hot comb. Maybe...

..., which was built for Louis XIV and Marie ets and striped paillettes in light effects. Alva Chinn Antoinette’s wedding. Princess Grace of Monaco, in and China Machado wowed the crowds in brilliant a ruby silk jersey cape and off-white Madame Gres and elegant topless dresses. Oscar stunned the audi...

... on a boat coming from Europe when a strong wind blew the stench of a nearby slave ship toward them—"spraying the ocean liner like a madame sprays perfume, only the scent...

... University Press, December 27, 2012. 2012); Shaw and Shubert, Portraits of a People; Powell, Cutting a 27 Prettejohn, Interpreting Sargent; Susan Sidlauskas, “Painting Figure. Skin: John Singer Sargent’s ‘Madame X American Art 15, no. 3 8 All discussions...

.... history of the South, in spite of some visionary ele - 6 I review the Paris version of the show in detail in “Madame Kara Walker, Notre Artiste: Mon Ennemi...

...-city industrial/cultural ghetto in Year—the burghers and baases and and deconstructs itself from the under - simple and startling counterpoint of the works in the Power Play exhibition contesting versions of reality, danger - which Goodman Gallery Cape is housed. madams...

...-city industrial/cultural ghetto in Year—the burghers and baases and and deconstructs itself from the under - simple and startling counterpoint of the works in the Power Play exhibition contesting versions of reality, danger - which Goodman Gallery Cape is housed. madams...

...-city industrial/cultural ghetto in Year—the burghers and baases and and deconstructs itself from the under - simple and startling counterpoint of the works in the Power Play exhibition contesting versions of reality, danger - which Goodman Gallery Cape is housed. madams...

...-city industrial/cultural ghetto in Year—the burghers and baases and and deconstructs itself from the under - simple and startling counterpoint of the works in the Power Play exhibition contesting versions of reality, danger - which Goodman Gallery Cape is housed. madams...

..., Nimet, a Circassian beauty and the romantic obsession of poet Rainer Maria Rilke, had posed for at least one other noted photographer besides Miller, who photographed her wearing a turban and pearls for Vogue. Bey left Nimet and married Miller in 1934. For a while, she enjoyed her life as Madame Eloui...