Search Results for postcolonial art

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..., Richard Mayhew: An American at Sonoma State University and author of Art and Abstractionist (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, 1978), n.p. Architecture in Postcolonial Africa (2006) and of 29. LeFalle...

... between the works and between the works vitally alive for every person walking in the streets of and viewers without the dialogue being overshadowed by contemporary Dakar, reflecting on the shared history of the artists’ names. It was important to subvert the art-world postcolony. How...

... curatorial constellations postcolonial art ENWEZOR S MODEL and Copenhagen s Center for Art on Migration Politics Sabine Dahl Nielsen and O ne of the most remarkable signs of the impor- Anne Ring Petersen tance and adaptability of Okwui Enwezor s work is the way in which the transformative models...

... and traditional visual culture or Islamic art as a postcolonial claim of local identity, Gharbaoui’s work is more elusive. Many critics have framed his abstraction primarily through his schizophrenia, as Gharbaoui died from suicide in 1971; this continual recourse to biography over the actual art objects puts...

...Clyde Taylor This essay attempts to locate the historical significance of Black Arts as a potent, widely social modernism, unlike the café/salon confines of the Paris model. The Black Arts and Black Aesthetics movements were at the center of a rupture of misidentified blackness left over from...

... to postcolonial discourses surrounding race and representation, while demonstrating Africa’s continued influence on American art. Journal of Contemporary African...

... of wit, Rodney was, until his death in 1998 from complications related to sickle cell disease, one of the most compelling artists to come out of the Black Arts Movement of 1980s Britain. From X-rays of his cells to tiny sculptures made from his own skin, Rodney created conceptual self-portraits of his...

... osmopolitanism in relationship to the entanglement of Africa and the West and its reconfiguration at the intersection of modernity and postcoloniality. Journal of Contemporary African Art 46 May 20208 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-8308138 © 2020 by Nka Publications Salah M. Hassan Is Afropolitan the Answer? T...

... University and the aftermaths of the Second World War in Africa, respectively, the article touches on issues of art education, the production of historical meaning, and the role of cultural institutions in Uganda. It also examines the complex entanglement between colonial legacies and postcolonial...

... and postcolonial history, art history as archive, European decadence—alongside works that emphasize his more recent focus on cinematic strategies and contemporary global politics. By juxtaposing works in different mediums executed over the past fifteen years, this carefully curated and creatively installed show...

... pointing toward the possibility of reinventing alternative relations with(in) the city. Drawing upon a theoretical framework indebted to postcolonial, diaspora, globalization, area, and urban studies, this essay also explores more or less acknowledged art historical affiliations of Chagas’s work...

... in which the transnational movement of ideas, artworks, and artists played a role in shaping the actions of precise national movements as well. Copyright © 2018 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2018 postcolonial Morocco Casablanca Ecole des Beaux-Arts modernism Pan-Africanism ...

... cultures, a generation of late-colonial-era Europeans still active in the continent s nascent art industry, joined by young African writers and artists, enabled a fair amount of postcolonial art writing in Black Orpheus (Nigeria), Transition (Uganda), and occasionally in Drum (South Africa, Nigeria, Uganda...

... custom, and the aftermath of human migration combine across the arc of his production to present a dystopic picture of globalization that critiques both postcolonial theories of hybridity and the cultural and architectural homogenization against which they were originally formulated. Crucially...

...- ernism with an equally powerful conviction of his ary sculpture to Nubian, Axumite, and Ethiopian role in imagining a new postcolonial world through Christian imagery. These reincarnated forms, com- art’s signifying potential. In other words, his studies pletely repurposed and subjected to new...

...Penny M. Von Eschen This article explores implicit as well as explicit debates over modernity among African American artists at the 1966 World Festival of Black Arts held in Dakar, Senegal, honing in on moments that reveal tensions among the artists as well as between artists and the US officials...

... industry signals a newfound creative energy and prosperity, yet it also raises debate around such issues as Westernization, postcolonialism, race, gender equality and religion. Haute Africa focused on the work of photographers who are not interested in African fashion per se but who choose instead...

... use of monstrous bodies. Kobena Mercer, Postcolonial Grotesque: Jane Alexander s Poetic Monsters, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 33 (2013): 85 87. 2 Mercer, Postcolonial Grotesque, 87. 3 Mercer, Postcolonial Grotesque, 82. 4 Lucy Alexander, Jane Alexander: Bom Boys, in Africas...

... with French organizations for specific antiracist actions. Both in its title and its portrayal of the movement as multinodal and interconnected, Timeline for a Constellation recalls Enwezor s concept of the postcolonial constellation, on which he elaborated in 2003: Contemporary art today is refracted...