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... and 2018, respectively. Eugene Palmer and Barbara Walker Photography and the Black Subject Richard Hylton Hylton Nka 101 Barbara Walker, Montana, 2015. Charcoal, approx. 4.2 x 4 m. Installation view of the exhibition Sub Urban: New Drawings, James Hockey Gallery, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham...

..., and children, both within the United Kingdom and across the African diaspora. Answering her own question “Where is the black presence?,” she creates self-reflexively experimental and politically radicalized bodies of work in which she dramatizes the invisibilized and misrepresented lives of black subjects...

... the black body in art has been displaced by its surrogate: a facialization of the black body as pure surface, the phallicization and epidermalization of the black subject as nothing more than his or her skin. To destabilize this body, these artists seek to get back to what Hortense Spillers describes...

... of transatlantic slavery provided the capital that galvanized white Western art systems of patronage, collection, and exhibition into existence. He represents black women, men, and children as the appropriate subjects of fine art at the same time that he remains dedicated to restoring the history...

... an opportunity that liberated midcentury New York artists from naturalism and the shadows of European hegemony, Lewis may have found a liberation of his own in the abstraction and formalism that Gallagher now deftly manipulates. Gallagher’s work suggests a new aesthetic code that subverts the black subject...

... of art history. Through a series of portraits of black subjects produced in Haiti during the nineteenth century, it sets aside temporally bound notions of innovation and avant-garde aesthetics that center art history and considers the manner in which these portraits defused the authority of Western...

... of black subjects in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and New Orleans. With Mthethwa’s customary saturated color, subtle composition, and exacting attention to ephemeral detail, the images depicted the reach of politics in the aesthetics of everyday life. They also revealed the artist’s interest in the longer...

... of the Egyptian people. Distributing smaller plaster figures served as promotion and advanced her notoriety and career. Therefore, painted plaster established her credentials as a recognized and successful artist. After 1921, Fuller focused on Black subjects, including genre pieces like her Water Boy series...

... of this photograph to the history of photography, the history of the black photographic subject, and the challenge of relating to these images as representations of members of the human family. Copyright © 2015 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2015 photography Good and Bad Hair Tamara and Tireka...

... discourses of identity in order to embrace more universal subjects. Two currently used terms that are applied to describe black artists— post-black and Afropolitan —are discussed from a perspective that questions their universal applicability and raises attention to the heterotemporal aspects of being black...

..., with Wiley and his subjects movement from the 1930s through the 1950s that selecting their poses from textbook reproductions redefined blackness within a collective African of Old Master works. He depicted these figures on identity and cultural tradition.1 Inspired by the a large scale, placing his...

... with Earrings (1966), shot for twen magazine. March’s subject—the African American fashion model and actress Donyale Luna (1945–79)—is of great historical significance, not only because Luna was the first internationally acclaimed black fashion model, but also because she had an especially arresting, black...

... that was captured for a Players Magazine photo spread—the author suggests that black porn stars often embrace a politics of illicit eroticism in which they mobilize black sexual subjectivity for their own ambitions and needs, pushing against the prevailing stigmas that render them illicit objects of desire...

... the narratives and bend an association of ideas so that a black individual in a period setting is no longer synonymous with slave subservience and, by extension, does not instill fear or mistrust. She becomes the center of her own tale and hastens it forward. Creating pieces that simulate Old Masters’ techniques...

... and has expanded in scope through recent attention from a subsequent generation of African American artists, including several students as well as art scholars. White (1918–79) was vocally committed from the mid-1960s through his final decade to African American art subjects in tandem with social issues...

... of cosmopolitan societies and selves; and the changing representation of blackness, desire, and beauty across time and space. His archive thus not only constitutes a rare document of the black experience in postwar Britain during the Swinging Sixties, but also provides an important frame of reference, overlapping...

..., formal portraits of self-styled young black men set against bright, patterned backdrops. Some, however, have been skeptical of not only the accessibility and somewhat pedagogical subject matter vis-à-vis the contemporary black male in life and representation, but also his retro photorealist technique...

... readings following Bhabha, they hold betrays the colonial about these objects convey about (black) (gay) fantasy of the white producers and the demand of desire, subjectivity, and belonging? white consumers.9 Leaving the answer for us to take In the historical moment at the dawning of up...

... in July 2014. 90 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 35 • Fall 2014 Notes 1 The word “Moor” might suggest the subject was a Spanish Muslim or North African, but in the seventeenth century the term was also loosely used to indicate any black person. 2 See...

... and colonialism, and most specifically Black/African Marxism, through a close reading of an autobiographical text written by the late Sudanese Marxist, Abdel Khaliq Mahgoub, in the course of elaborating why he became a Marxist. Mahgoub was very clear in differentiating between Western philosophy and Marxism. He...