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...Lauren Kroiz In 1971, Harold Cousins published an essay explaining the sculptures that he had begun creating in the mid-1950s, following his relocation in October 1949 from New York to Paris. Cousins described his series named Plaiton , his own neologism combining the English word plate...

...Chika Okeke-Agulu Ghada Amer’s 2010 work 100 Words of Love is the product of a tactical realignment with aesthetic principles evident in her early work, and a radical rearticulation of those principles as groundwork for new sculptural forms. While it is impossible to predict the works’ reception...

...Alex Zivkovic [email protected] © 2023 by Nka Publications 2023 68 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 52 May 2023 DOI 10.1215/10757163-10435008 © 2023 by Nka Publications Expanded Vitrines Museological Sculptures and Diasporic Identity Alex Zivkovic Matthew Angelo Harrison...

...Sunanda K. Sanyal Copyright © 2003 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2003 The Local and Beyond: Francis Nnaggenda's Sculptural Innovations...

... graphies of Uneven Exchange The Fluidity of Sculptural Form El Anatsui...

... Publications Wangechi Mutu is a Kenyan-American artist Note known for her work in sculpture, collage-painting, video, installation, and performance. 1 Audre Lord, The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action, in Sister Outsider (Berkeley, CA: Crossing Press, 1984), 41. Mutu Nka 147 ...

...Salah M. Hassan Over the span of more than fifty years, the Sudanese American and Chicago-based artist Amir Nour has created sculptures that reflect his remarkable ability to integrate methods, techniques, forms, and ideas that draw from his diverse experiences as a diasporic person. Nour was born...

.... Since few of Fuller’s sculptures were cast in bronze, the color transformation from white plaster to brown patina underlines the importance of materials to establish legitimacy and, more importantly, to forge connections with the Black experience in US monumental sculpture. By painting her plaster...

...Amy Nygaard This article intertwines discussions of art, trauma, and societal transformation through two of Jane Alexander’s sculptural works: Butcher Boys (1985–86) and Bom Boys (1998). Scholars have interpreted Bom Boys as continuing the grotesque themes prominent in the earlier and now iconic...

...Laurel Jean Fredrickson This article explores the immersive audio-visual and sculptural art installations in the 59th Venice Biennale (2022) of three transnational contemporary women artists with familial ties to former colonies and protectorates. The Afro-Caribbean artist Sonia Boyce, MBE...

...Caitlin Beach In 1919 the sculptor Meta Warrick Fuller modeled the statuette Mary Turner: A Silent Protest against Mob Violence . One of the earliest three-dimensional works of art to address the subject of lynching, the sculpture was dedicated to the memory of Turner, a nineteen-year-old pregnant...

... with American minimalism and Angolan contemporary artistic practice, which allow for a more thorough understanding of his photography as spatial, material, quasi-sculptural, and performative. Chagas’s work defies geographical, cultural, art historical, and artistic categorizations. While indeed departing from...

... paintings of young men inspired by his African surroundings. This essay traces the impact of these experiences on the art of Kehinde Wiley, particularly his aesthetic sensibility and conceptual mindset. Wiley embraced the art of Africa as a reference, posing his subjects after traditional sculpture...

...Brett M. Van Hoesen This article provides a review of the French-Algerian artist Kader Attia’s solo exhibition, Sacrifice and Harmony , a selection of twenty-nine works of installation, video, sculpture, collage, and assemblage, hosted by the Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Frankfurt, Germany...

...-conceived method artists invited for brief visits can show a lack of commitment, resulting in intellectual superficiality and poor execution. The most resonant on-site creation belonged to Jean Katambayi, whose sculpture was initiated as part of an experiment to commission works in advance, permitting time...

... of fractured yet imaginative Creole communiqués have a counterpart in the paintings, sculptures, and collages of the Haitian-born, Paris-based artist Hervé Télémaque (b. 1937). After studying in the mid-1950s at the Centre d’Art in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Télémaque moved to New York City, where he attended...

... and American sculpture. He was born in 1937 in Houston during segregation. Edwards is one of the few African American artists who has a particularly strong connection with Africa beyond his African origins. Copyright © 2018 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2018 Melvin Edwards sculpture public...