... Jo Ractliffe Jo e Walther Collection and Stevenson Gallery, FIGUREe Town FIGUREe Gallery, Stevenson and Collection e Walther As Terras do Fim do Mundo do Fim do Terras As Ifrom Cassinga at Grave , Mass...

... compelling images of posium was itself part of a series, The Terra Symposia Africa, shorn of the romantic or primitivistic imagi- on American Art in a Global Context, sponsored by naries developed by blacks in the New World as part the Terra Foundation for American Art. We are of their tactical...

... lost in transit and later recov• dren to color the source images, is a shame. D'Amelio Terras Gallery ered, is now presented separate• which he then re-presented in It is humorous that Mr. New York...

..., But DAK'ART's politicalinfluence Chthonian beings, emanating as is remote, weak and a highly con• they do from the netherworld be• tained one. What was on view con• neath the terra (i.e. read creatures sisted almost entirely of paintings, from the earth) were...

... experimen- tation with the formal syntaxes of African art and architecture, Nwoko won critical acclaim for his 1966 – 68 terra-­cotta sculptures inspired by ancient...

... a Edward George, Lina Gopaul, Avril Johnson, David Lawson, and new audience and a new generation to the work of the Trevor Mathison remains terra infirma. There are good reasons Black Audio Film Collective. An artworld audience internal and external...

... and to question this part of the information society, in many parts of Africa it is terra incog• kind of curatorial subjectivity, it is because it becomes even more prob• nita. When the brutally efficient Western artistic field confronts eco• lematic when curating modern art from other cultures...

... (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), 57 62. 2 Frédérique Aït-Touati, Alexandra Arènes, and Axelle Grégoire, Terra Forma: A Book of Speculative Maps, trans. Amanda DeMarco (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022). 3 Chaney C. G. St. Martin, Artist s Talk: Forest Notebooks by Mario Lewis, Medulla Art...

...’ refers not so much to the superficial Fragment of a face, Ilé-Ifè, Nigeria, twelfth to fifteenth century CE, terra-cotta. Height: 15.2 cm. Courtesy appreciation of a thing’s physical ap- National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Nigeria, and Museum for African Art, New York. Photo: Jerry...

... that frames the two veiled "sisters" and evokes Northern Nigerian Muslim architecture. The careful 1 In Kure's research on the veil in Nigeria, she found that the terras, burka and depictions of the burka itself in earlier...

... Box, in Documenta11, 44. 6 In the words of Kobena Mercer, photography lubricates the 21 Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma, YouTube video, 5:39, October ideological reproduction of colonial fantasy based on the desire 25, 2017, youtube.com/watch?v=H-xKU_v6Qc4. Sigmund for mastery and power over...

...: The Film Society of Lincoln Center African Film Festival, Jean Marie Terra, Afrique, Je Te Ptumerai, 1992, film still, courtesy: The Film Society of Lincoln Center African Film Festival. the film sketches a complex history against Diawara does not share Sembene's view...

... of enslaved Africans during the Atlantic slave Africa?" I asked, wondering how hot it must have trade. Closer to our own era, there is the traffick• been in the one built in Niamey on the edge of the ing of stolen artifacts such as old terra-cotta stat• Saharan desert...

... and svelte Broken Chambers of Memory (1979), reference to course and thick. For the artist, working with terra-cotta head sculptures from the Nok, a ninth- cowhide is both punishment and reward. In a gru• century Niger Basin civilization. In his fracturing elling process the artist...

... Deterritorialization of Western Myth, Journal of Caribbean Literatures 4, no. 1 (2005): 123. 11 Irit Rogoff, Terra Firma: Geography s Visual Culture (New York: Routledge, 2000), 3. 12 Irvine, Betray Them Both 129; Kaplan, Deterritorializations, 195. 13 Françoise Vergès, A Decolonial Feminism, trans. Ashley J...

... that prizes be by nature free and able to soar into the skies at will, allotted according to medium, not race or gender; unperturbed by the artificial confines and divisions he further described Maqhubela’s drawing as “pow- on terra firma that we build around ourselves and erful and expressive...

... and a highly con• they do from the netherworld be• tained one. What was on view con• neath the terra (i.e. read creatures sisted almost entirely of paintings, from the earth) were monsters which invariably scaled for the easel. To be had to be destroyed because...

... (Chicago: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2004), 40 41, 43 46. 34 Our Unsung Heroes. A Reform Crusade Undertaken by a St. Paul Man, Appeal, May 6, 1899, 3; and advertisement for Our Unsung Heroes, Appeal, June 17, 1899, 4. See also Bieze, Booker T. Washington, 60. 35 Our Unsung Heroes, 3. 36 Our...

... student as the only inventive and truly modern artist teaching at the time. 10 Zadkine required students to work in more traditional media such as terra-cotta, plaster, or wood and disapproved of the welded-metal techniques pioneered in the 1920s in Paris by Barcelona-born sculptor Julio González.11...

..., popular. and global media did not have the reach they do The artworks anchoring the new African galler- now. . . . So I can imagine it was jarring for him ies at the NCMA let me play with this — the NCMA to enter a new area where there was not that same has a stellar Nok terra-­cotta that was orphaned...