..., the Americans triumph in large part is because of the black models that sashayed the runway, moving like dancers with the instincts of soldiers. That combination mesmerized and blew away the French. Those models included Pat Cleveland, Bethann Hardisan, Billie Blair, Alva Chin, Charlene Dash, Norman Jean Darden...

... it to life. Models danced, sang, into four garment groupings that revealed the and, in one season, roller-skated their way down the breadth of garments presented in the traveling runway to create a full-scale production of fashion show’s history and spoke to some of the most reiter- fantasy...

... relations between Peary and Henson, thetic provides a very different approach, challeng- though in unexpected ways. This comes through ing some foundational assumptions of the sublime in Julien’s focus on a black female fashion model, as overwhelming and humbling, since he offers us Vanessa...

... readings of cultural practices framed with the production of modern cultural extreme, non-liberatory, and oppres• FASHION by dialectical models of Western cate• practices earlier in the century in the sive measure. Another contemporary...

...." show is now at the New York State Museum in Albany, through The celebrity beat goes on in March 11.) Gerard H. Gaskin's runway shots of New York City's annual Black...

... art seems especially In a nation where an epidemic of visual violence itation on the Old one. ences to which I can attest personally, such as hav - compelling in light of persisting material dispari - is pervasive , from fashion runways to television sit - Walker has...

... Docklands, a waterway to the rest of Britain s empire, one less forged on land than by sea. In recent work, Akomfrah continues to ramify the thematic and epistemic models proposed by the fluidic undercur- rents in Twilight City. There are formal continuities as well: for one, composed tableaux feature fre...

... innovation allowed a nation or region of the world to position itself as the model of modernity and cultural sophistication. Many newly independent African nations were eager to reposition themselves on the world stage, and fashion became one way to do so. In apartheid-era South Africa, such politics were...

... and the African masklike facial features of some of the models that broke from the classical conventions of the French academy. Picasso s radical approach toward abstraction led to the foundation of a new visual language: cubism. 72 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 51 November 2022 DOI 10.1215...

... Christian Nagel, Berlin and Cologne. Photo: Aurélien Mole America, and the Near East. Often, the poorest neighbor- 72 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 26 • Spring 2010 hoods are adjacent to the land where airport runways are the feeling that sculpture...