... women’s representations in pornography reveal the complex politics of black women’s sexual politics and feminism, and the stakes of respectability and objectification. Looking at the ways in which Pepper understood her work, and her pride in her performances—including a 1986 tour of Europe...

... a dream, as if it were not real, as if it were not to fall into pornography, into spectacle, not to shoot part of this world, yet at the same time, there was an people who are already suffering. So I said to myself I immense and massive sense of anguish and suffering have to risk it and get as close...

... of naked bodies posed in sexually served to mask white patriarchal anxiety, for could explicit positions recall the imagery of "gonzo porn," white nationalists ever really be certain of their con• a genre of pornography "marked by handheld cam• trol over white women's sexuality...

... authorship of the image, or the action of gazing, make you a subject? Who is the gazer in the context of the Internet? What does it feel like to be an object looking at an object? Copyright © 2016 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2016 selfie gay pornography agency erotic A PICTURE’S...

...-print, 80 x 57 cm. Courtesy the artist large-scale collages harvest images from such diverse sources as pornography, fashion magazines, and National Geographic to create hybrid female forms inhabiting maximalist landscapes that question the ways African women...

... dancehall fetes, local able, but equally what is revealed are the negoti- beauty pageants, and pornography are superim- ated positions of power taken up by women within posed on pages from the Financial Times, unifying 116 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 38–39 • November 2016 Ras...

..., the ture of violence and pornography at home on the one inclusion of a sampling of representative works by hand, and the return of classic colonial violence and these artists in a special portfolio entitled "Contempo• torture as they are currently being inflicted on non...

... of the image. While the auto-erotic female is a stock-image in pornography made for a male market, her presence here is not easily accessible to such a market which, by definition, insists on the tangible- the recognizably consumable body. Despite the proliferation of vulvae and labia in Amer's work...

... seventies, the most famous of that National Geographic reigns as the soft Renaissance such as Zora Neale Hurston which, Injustice Case, shows us a bound core pornography of choice for underage and Alain Locke looked on black popular and gagged Black Panther...

... to see. This deliberate obscurity suggests a calls into question the distance between religious liminal time, twilight in a mythical forest world that painting and pornography, and, in black figuration, refuses to explain or clarify itself. We’re aware of the between stereotype and homage. He...

... photographs the center of this cultural maelstrom, but it is up to of breasts—­albeit taken from pornography—­do not audiences to determine whether the visual expres- seem quite so large or offensive. Rather, standing sion of hip-­hop remains in full force. together as an oeuvre, this group...

... as worthy of intellectual engagement.16 The Pleasure Turn I define the pleasure turn as the increasing vis- ibility and availability in major African cities, and in their online spaces, of objects related to erotic pleasure; these include erotica, pornography, sex toys, fattening pills and butt-enhancing...

.... Its cisgender mission is to examine how “transgender” pornography comes into play as a category, a process, a social assemblage, an increasingly psychoanalysis intelligible gender...

... Tom. This sleight of hand, which moves the viewer physically inhabit an installation that took up all from public television to pornography—with the at - the visual rhetoric of a diorama...

... way of hitting hard at bourgeois assumptions, at its coded language, at its way of thinking. It allowed him to show up the truly ridiculous nature of its hierarchies. On this subject, we would do well to refer to his essay from 1935, Scatologie pornographie littéraire. 12 The subject is also raised...

..., and pornography consciously with a critical, all-consuming eye. or unconsciously employ these tactics to enliven the image and beguile viewers. Charlotte March’s Richard J. Powell is the John Spencer Bassett Profes- portrait of Donyale Luna was certainly cognizant sor of Art and Art History at Duke...

... of and as a escalating violence gives new meaning to "an orgy reaction to the forces of production that both cre• of violence" for the way in which it insists on link• ated the Third Cinema movement and blaxploita• ing pornography, eroticism, and violence narra• tion film in the sixties and seventies, as well...

..., therefore, asserted their about female sexuality, the social economy of imperative. Further, the acknowledgment of the curb their freedom—the Egyptian New Woman’s New Woman identity by rejecting the veil, it was a pornography, and her subjection of masculinist- Egyptian woman...

... of inferiority.19 exploit the physical world. In portraits and pornography, snapshots and And yet such technologies are tools whose status, mugshots, we Anew race to be true because we see it, John Tagg reminds us, "varies in the power relations touch it, circulate...

... and ques - of Design in 1994. In 1997 her work was included cial greetings, and mannequin modeling; who first ment of the commercial forms of pornography in tion the stifling and conservative Eurocentric “bel - in the Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum entered a predominately white...