...Kristen Windmuller-Luna RE V IE W S Journal of Contemporary African Art 45 November 2019154 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-7917216 © 2019 by Nka Publications POSING MODERNITY: THE BLACK MODEL FROM MANET AND MATISSE TO TODAY WALLACH ART GALLERY NEW YORK, NEW YORK OCTOBER 24, 2018 FEBRUARY 10, 2019...

... bodies. Together they share a fundamental interest in defacing and deforming the gaze—both a gendering and a racializing gaze—as it has rested upon both the black male and female body and the black face. Comparisons with visual works by an old European master, Édouard Manet, and twentieth-century...

... artist team, with one joint name, that land Cotter and highlighted as one of the top ten lives and works in Ludwigshafen and Berlin, Ger- 76 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 35 • Fall 2014 Installation shot including Carrie Mae Weems, Not Manet’s Type, 2010, and work by Muholi...

..., one that is will• Perhaps it is the confidence, not the black female photogra• ing to practice the theory of the most democratic ideals. pher's allusion to Manet's Olympia, that disturbs so many critics' In their introduction to The Black Female Body: A unwillingness...

... at a century we see how they can coolly confront their time when white juxtaposed with black was vogue, viewers in a manner not unlike Manet's Olympia. and Man Ray's images of models like Kiki de From these images and others, we know that Montparnasse alongside African sculpture made blacks saw...

... with black people." of Bruegel, Rubens, de Gheyn and Jordaens, and in his appro• Ecstasy of Medusa is after Rubens's original and also refer• priation of the early modernist realism of Manet's meditation on ences Caravaggio's circular depiction of the screaming female...

... the 2006 World Cup. Zidane’s “headbutt,” headfirst, composed of textiles printed with chickens, and of has been celebrated by some Africans as an anticolonial Manet’s Dead Christ, who is glowing from the reflection of a television set and holding a remote control. In Manet’s work...

..., on various occasions, organization is reminiscent of several critical issues. One is madcap cosmopolitanism was long printed skirts as well as Manet; Sidibe has collapsed picto• money, and how much of it, rela• something they conceived...

... Jean-Ulrick Désert rom the body as sign to the disembodiment helper. Reproductions of Manet’s Olympia of 1863 of signs, the work of Jean-Ulrick Désert, a and postcards of the Dutch black-faced Zwarte Piet Haitian-born artist currently based in Berlin, contributed to the decor...

..., Walter Sickert, Édouard Manet, and Edgar Degas, but it s in terms of studying a gesture, a look, a composition, a color, how the 254 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 49 November 2021 DOI 10.1215/10757163-9435877 © 2021 by Nka Publications paint is handled rather than a whole painting, adds...

... a tradition in ments of Black cultures, from magazine cut-outs of Black body parts, painting that harkens back to Eduard Manet, linking the subversion of to glitter, to the exaggeratedly Negroid figures of Afrocentric black idealized beauty to the presence...

... in ing (if you will) the French Algerian celebrity foot- Ghana. The work incorporates numerous elements baller Zinedine Zidane; the pose bears an uncanny that index the materiality of that particular setting, resemblance to Manet’s painting Olympia. As repro- including a rice sack printed...

... of the militias, "They were very courageous when they were killing Manet's In |aar's Rwanda works, we see the artist's The Execution of the Emperor people who could not defend themselves...

... body that of the artist himself. The performance gives the sensation of an impact caused by a shot that provokes the beginning of the fall, recalling Édouard Manet s The Execution of Emperor Maximilian (1868) by the existence of a wall in the background, the position the wall occupies in the visual...