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Nka (2010) 2010 (26): 60–69.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Hannah Feldman Kader Attia is a French Algerian artist who now divides his time among Berlin, Algiers, and Paris. This article surveys his sculptural and photographic practice since his provocative Piste d’atterrissage (1997). It argues that Attia’s invocation of modernist urbanism, religious...
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Nka (2014) 2014 (35): 100–113.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Selene Wendt Having worked with media art for over thirty years, Theo Eshetu is internationally recognized as a veteran in his field. His ongoing investigation of the manipulation of the language of television is inspired by anthropology, art history, scientific research, religious iconography...
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Nka (2009) 2009 (24): 72–81.
Published: 01 May 2009
... interview of 1996: "I am a very religious per• color in his work, switching from his extra• son. I know that there is (a) God and I know ordinarily brilliant pastel drawings to his new you've got to respect all the people around you— work in photography.13 He described his disap...
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Nka (2000) 2000 (11-12): 114.
Published: 01 May 2000
...• rage. And, given that the show is Beneath his good-natured smile, National Center of Afro-American tural, and religious difference in being shown at the National Center there is a powerful ferocity; the Artists, Kodi's colors are greatly...
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Nka (2001) 2001 (15): 85.
Published: 01 November 2001
... prey gallops through three decades ago. Further, the recent religious riot in the Works in the Trap Series direct- what must...
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Nka (2010) 2010 (27): 14–21.
Published: 01 November 2010
... of economic stagnation, political its connection with the boys’ perspective, and with repression, and religious-­ethnic rivalries through- Senegal’s future: Guelwaar’s widow turns the tables out much of the Francophone West African world. on the Christian leaders, accusing one—­rather than Decades after...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (29): 128–139.
Published: 01 November 2011
..., to transcend trouble, and to speak of things selves. During slavery such occasions might have not easily worded. been musical gatherings or religious services in Admittedly, Walker’s work adds a sinister twist the woods. In the twentieth century, many people to this notion because of the hellish subject...
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Nka (2001) 2001 (13-14): 40–47.
Published: 01 May 2001
... art is integral to the political and religious development of the country. The mixture of traditional beliefs with those of eastern...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (28): 58–66.
Published: 01 May 2011
... of which an ations is celebrated in many cultures by religious identifiable figure — the white male — can emerge.9 rites, but only one, the marriage, portrays a religious To elaborate, in the first two images of the cir- ceremony. The fact that, according to Emmanuel, cumcision sequence...
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Nka (2013) 2013 (33): 92–99.
Published: 01 November 2013
... in 2004 as part of the exhibition Per- sonal Affects: Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art.2 One might question the possible contradictions between the set of beliefs prevalent in a religious temple such as St. John the Divine, and a body of work in which all religious faith...
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Nka (2008) 2008 (22-23): 60–79.
Published: 01 May 2008
... tion—of measuring, scanning, and classifying dif• rationalisation to be the primal context of conven• ference—but ultimately bound up with it are the tional value."14 "natalising" tendencies that Maharaj discerns in Whether within the religious context of the articulation of postapartheid...
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Nka (2020) 2020 (46): 136–150.
Published: 01 May 2020
... is presented as a soulful, spiritual experience that suddenly is interjected by the beat of urban rap music. When the hypnotic effect of religious chimes gives way to harsh street music, we are inspired to consider the stark contrast between deep-rooted religious traditions and the world of hip-hop and rap...
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Nka (1996) 1996 (5): 17–19.
Published: 01 November 1996
... the cart-driver who has a very bad day, characters tion of bureaucratic heartlessness and maintenance of economic relations with are sympathetic in inverse proportion to how incompetency): first, religious conflict is France (and the World Bank and the IMF...
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Nka (1996) 1996 (5): 24–27.
Published: 01 November 1996
... of the Ethiopian tradition of religious manuscript painting. In her basic color scheme Atnafu...
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Nka (2001) 2001 (15): 38–43.
Published: 01 November 2001
... univer• sally valid paradigm, has proved superior to all martial strategies of conquest because, significantly, it leaves ideals, religious beliefs and moral values unscathed. It may have taken a long time, but the sweet smile of capitalism is now in the process of fading out the ideological...
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Nka (2014) 2014 (35): 92–99.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Marshall Nimeiry’s single-party regime collapsed, traditional European art through reproductions of Matisse, the Islamists presented another ideological patronage that Rembrandt, etc. favored religious propaganda. Today artists cannot make a 94 • Nka Journal...
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Nka (2001) 2001 (15): 88–89.
Published: 01 November 2001
... period. But that isn't happening, who works for the New York the Catholic League for Religious or is happening at a glacial pace. Times. and Civil Rights, which monitors So the option is still the all...
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Nka (2011) 2011 (29): 32–41.
Published: 01 November 2011
.... At assembling the debris used in the show, moreover, the same time, Saar places Africa at the center of a combined hard labor — salvage efforts took three mystic ensemble that nonetheless radiates specific months of daily work — with a performative sponta- African American magico-­religious ideas. Beyond...
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Nka (2009) 2009 (24): 4–5.
Published: 01 May 2009
... Jessica Winegar, "The Humanity Game: Art, Islam, and the War on and modernity of Middle Eastern Muslims," notes Terror," Anthropological Quarterly 81, no. 3 (Summer 2008): pp. Winegar, "actually ends up reproducing a religious 651 -681; Finbarr Barry Flood, "From...
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Nka (2001) 2001 (15): 47–53.
Published: 01 November 2001
... networks of fami• Tijiane Islamic brotherhoods (religious ly and friends, rather than nuclear units. organizations linked to particular African The norms and forms of the colonial...