...: American Runway Revolution, which revisits the famed fashion battle at Versailles and examines the dynamics of race, economics, beauty, history, and the epic results of that legendary night in 1973 at the Chateau de Versailles. When five American designers enjoy victory against their French counterparts...

...Leena Habiballa [email protected] © 2020 Tropics of Meta 2020 THE VISUAL LIFE Archival and Counter-archival Narratives of Revolt Leena Habiballa 6 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 52 May 2023 DOI 10.1215/10757163-10434938 © 2020 Tropics of Meta OF REVOLUTION Suha...

... was full of beginnings and no ends. It is betrayal of the revolution and his sheer dis• Salem Mekuria, Still from Deluge. a tale of two people who looked Very much appointment of her is narrated by Salem...

...Akin Adesokan Copyright © 2007 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2007 A REVOLUTION FROM BELOW THE AESTHETICS OF WEST AFRICAN VIDEOFILMS Akin Adesokan uring the third quarter of 2003 (that is, find applicable to the circumstances...

... that would uncritically cele• of all culture.6 brate and eulogize the triumphs of the revolution. Nor was he making the case for a romantic return A Vernacular Modernity to traditional artistic practices. "A national culture It is precisely this negotiation between a national is not a folklore...

...Bahia Shehab The article highlights the dialogue that took place in 2011–13 between the street and cyberspace and the government and the revolutionaries during the first wave of the Egyptian revolution. In this personal account of the Egyptian uprising, the author describes the unfolding political...

... of the principal debates and challenges that the group faced in Europe. What lie at stake in the surrealists’ effort to encompass metaphysical and dialectical methods are both the legitimacy of their claims on the term revolutionary and their insistence on a revolution of the mind. In this context, the author...

... beginning with the Zemema Mesafint , or Era of Princes (ca. 1760– 1855), which laid the groundwork for the emergence of centralized imperial power that was later dissolved by the 1974 revolution. The article explores the consequences of state power and nationalism post-revolution in definitions of modernity...

... century. In the twentieth century, universal history became an attempt to include all so-called civilizations within an academic canon. By unearthing the central significance of the Haitian Revolution for Hegel’s idea of freedom, the author argues for an inversion of historical understanding: the alleged...

... it was derailed by the 1952 Officer’s Revolution and, later, pressed into the service of the state. Despite the lack of access to the photographic record of works produced for or around Art and Liberty exhibitions, the author contributes contextual details for both those shows and the practice of photography...

... the mythology surrounding Monáe’s public presentation, as well as the styling of the videos for “Tightrope” and “Q.U.E.E.N.,” I argue that Monáe insists on a playfully clad and performative “embodied knowledge” as a basis for her android revolution. Copyright © 2015 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art...

... trials, including fighting among members and criticism from the rest of the art world, the theater and school, along with the Black Arts Movement, has made a significant impact. The continuing task faced by revolutionary Black artists and intellectuals is to further the Cultural Revolution. Copyright ©...

...Salah Hassan © 2023 by Nka Publications 2023 From the Editor As this issue goes to press, Sudan is once again being engulfed by war. This time the violence comes at the hands of two military leaders. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who betrayed the People s Revolution of 2018 2019, led...

... of the uprisings. Basiony soon became one of phasize and fetishize the ‘Arabesque’ qualities often the iconic martyrs of the revolution, and not just for associated with the Islamic tradition” was somewhat the artistic community. His face appeared on ban- refocused, although arguably in equally problematic...

... would label “armed propaganda.” In his Power Mixtape, 1967–1975 (2011) mobilize Black widely influential 1967 account of guerrilla war- Power images in a formal as well as narrative chal- fare in Latin America, Revolution in the Revolution...

... of Angola's revolution that Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" did in the history of the Soviet revolution. The difference being that, since Angola's...

... to an insurrection in progress to sets of eyes expressing horror, terror, or surprise. Through these images, the cultural life of the lowly implement is given the most dramatic range of fillips. [email protected] © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 Haitian Revolution Caribbean history...

... 62 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-2914328 © 2015 by Nka Publications The cry of a people: “Revolution.” Mohamed Mahmoud Street, Cairo Chambers Nka • 63 Tahrir Square, the heart...

... are rative, and what that may represent, in revolution led by Gamal Abdul Nasser. not passive, or diminutive. Despite the her recent exhibition at the Townhouse The tenuous construction and location...

... citizens political alliances, allegiances, and loyalties, or lack thereof. It was during the mass uprising, otherwise known as the 1974 Revolution, when the imperial state of Emperor Haile Selassie was overthrown. The 1973 famine that killed over three hundred thousand peas­ ants in Wollo and Tigray...