...Jareh Das RE V IE W S Journal of Contemporary African Art 46 May 2020184 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-8308306 © 2020 by Nka Publications SILENCE: EPHREM SOLOMON KRISTIN HJELLEGJERDE, LONDON JANUARY 6 FEBRUARY 3, 2018 The wide, almond-shaped eyes in an- cient Ethiopian iconography symbol- ized...

... in. I suppose the clue is in the way you could tie Trump s blovi- Naomi Beckwith was recently appointed ated election campaigning to the death of the deputy director and the Jennifer and David Confederacy. You could always see the longue Stockman Chief Curator of the Solomon R. durée of history and its...

...Solomon Deressa 3 x 62 5/8 in. (143.8 x 159.1 cm). Collection of The North Carolina Museum of Ai SKUNDER IN CONTEXT...

... Words consists of over thirty works in related to black absences within the domain of which she dramatizes the stark realities confronting white Western art histories. She directly confronts the daily life of her son, Solomon, and the dominant widespread tendencies toward black objectification...

.... It is vitality and our amputated spirit that has yet with this common ideal that Solomon (the to be healed. I was part of this generation film maker's brother) and Negest (the film...

..., science, education, medicine and what have you. Why in the world should art be different? (Head,1969) Soon critic Solomon Deressa wrote, in an attempt...

..., reflects such qualities and more. Her work is the immersed as a child in a mythical Old Testament n i i i M l| i nn i u product of a rich heritage and a wealth of experience world ruled by King Solomon and the Queen of u H L H 11 linuuHn derived from her formative...

... many other contemporary artists from around the world. Shortly after we went to press with our last issue, William Kentridge came very close to winning the prestigious Hugo Boss award from the Solomon Guggenheim Museum. Since the appearance of his new media piece on the South African Truth...

... of the Nile to a constant monizing the bond between humankind and cos- struggle with and resistance against it. Its mysteri- mos. Solomon’s ability to speak the language of all ous sources, regarded as the “bed of the sun,” which 20 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 32 • Spring 2013...

... fortunate to have obtained an intellectually stimulating interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist, submitted to Nka a few months before the death of Mancoba. In the past, we have featured a seminal essay on Skunder, writ• ten by his compatriot and friend, the poet Solomon Oeressa, in Nka (No. 11...

... from Solomon Islands; five pieces of a legionnaire's tattooed skin), as well as regionally-known artists such as Jane...

... sculpture recitals have paid homage to the Harlem Renaissance writers Jean Toomer and Zora Neale Hurston, the musician John Coltrane, the former slave Solomon Northrop, and the artist's own father, Robert Hamilton Adkins (1927-1995). Imagined History Along with other black artists who...

... specific works were both caught and miraculously survived. I was in the show, and the kinds of references from which you struck by the elemental quality of these almost identi - have drawn. Miracle shows a tiny baby falling through cal stories; like Sophie’s choice, or King Solomon’s...

..., ed. Gloria Groom (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2015), 45n21 23. 23 Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Going Native: Paul Gauguin and the Invention of Primitivist Modernism, in The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, ed. Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), 320. 24...

.... —Pilate, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon While he makes note of the dualism in language —  symbolism and nationalism assumed within the colors black and white and their cultural represen- Blackness has had an exhaustive range of defini- tations — he also speaks to the messy, multifaceted tions...

... of visual artists, writers, performers, and political exiles living groups capable of subverting homogeneous space for in Gaborone, Botswana, during the 1980s and integrated by artists their own purposes, a theatricalized or dramatized like Solomon Mahlangu, an African National Congress...

.... Fall 2006 Nka «123 A Harvest of Death. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. July 1863. Photographed by Timothy H. O'Sullivan. Plate 36 in Alexander, Gardner, Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War (Washington: Philp & Solomons, 1865-66). Courtesy Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University...

... AND THE ABIGAIL SOLOMON-GODEAU OPTICAL SARAH PARSONS, editor UNCONSCIOUS 38 photographs, paper, $24.95 SHAWN MICHELLE SMITH AND SHARON SLIWINSKI, EDITORS...

.... Jung and M. L. von Franz, et. al (New York: Doubleday, 1964), 18 103; and John Clay, Jung s Influence in the Literature and the Arts, in Jungian Thought in the Modern World, ed. Elphis Christopher and Hester McFarland Solomon (New York: Free Association Books, 2000), 233 43. 9 Ahmed Morsi, interview...

... Such a question appears central to Walker s deployment of various stylistic approaches in portraying Solomon, her son. In her portrait compositions of black men, drawn or painted from a variety of angles, Walker engages critically with mechanisms of classification evoked by the police mugshot or booking photo...