... to reflect on juxtapositions of the sacred and profane, the beautiful and ugly, in Ofili’s earlier work and to consider the implications of his strategic shift. Copyright © 2010 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2010 FROM riot to austerity Chris Ofili’s Retrospective at the Tate...

... was created in conversation with the book I edited, Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics.2 I was not involved in the conception...

... in the wall in a grid formation. Strangely reminiscent of children's My S/eep(2001), and Queen Ugly (2001). Each of the three works book illustrations, the collage and watercolor works contain sur• features a central female character articulated in watercolor and realistic, hellish...

...- aesthetic treatises of Kant, Friedrich Schiller, and 120 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 28 • Spring 2011 Stendhal, noting that a conciliatory beauty was not ugly into the beautiful through a “politics of hope” possible that looks to the future.21...

... the and 1999, about how metropolis• beleaguered, ugly, giant city is es inspire artists, and the Tate being questioned, it's a shame...

... to the consequences of its the process of memorializing. of the early moments turning ugly and mad insistence on acquisition and From Hans Bellmer's grotesquely in on themselves. The dolls—the dominance by any means necessary. assembled...

... canvases that employ the lated either into beauty or ugli• minimalist...

... justification for our possessive fixation on it" (my own emphasis). He comments further that this apprehension trans• forms into a romantic longing in the hold of which we are blinded to the specifics of our relationship. Everything takes on a different hue; the ugly turns unique, the trivial...

... by word the Shaba and Katanga provinces where Belgian rule was at its ugli• of mouth on the street and in the marketplaces), lewsiewicki and his est as greed for rich mineral resources led to atrocious acts of colleagues offer this interpretation, seeing these paintings as studies...

... materialist, and too ugly to be accepted as a project for human The Origin of Art, 1998, textile ink on cloth, 155x199 cm. existence. It needs to be justified and sweetened through aesthet- ical efforts. Maybe that is why "patrons" of the industrial world HM: It is funny that the word curate indicates...

..., the conference letter reminds us that it Atlanta. Ibid. is useful to remember what the exhibition Without 5 Jim Auchmutey, Lynching Exhibit Confronts Souths Ugly Sanctuary does...

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... of the Butcher Boys the artist’s intentions. But the dividing line between (1985 – 86) come close to a classical definition of intellect and emotion is itself undermined by the beauty, but there is something so ugly and distorted gut-­level immediacy of the humanimal’s concrete about them that you cannot...

... it is into a situation where they're sensitive to putting enough information in the frame to ugly, sometimes it is uninteresting. But it has themselves watching the piece.' fuck the theory over. His images play with to do with looking at things in a different way. I...

... been found by archaeologists in For instance, depictions of an oba in Think murderers and unspeakably ugly the area of Ilé-Ifè. He is particularly any state of undress would be highly things. Ewà must be something other concerned to controvert the domi- unlikely. Were such to occur, it would...

... seems, is to drive a critical wedge uate white-supremacist capitalist anguish. Eech. Ugly. between the moribund institutional hands cultural criticism becomes...

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... been a conceptual shift. The ugliness of VHS brought shape the Ziggy Stardust persona. As mime, actor, and di- about an exploration of its conceptual basis, and working rector he studied under Marcel Marceau and Kazuo Ohno, with broadcasting media brought about a dialogue that and his...

.... Patricia Piccinini showed photographs from style and trenchant humor, parodied US cultural dominance by her Social Studies series of 2000, where an engagingly ugly bio- announcing the coming of the Era Iberoamericano. Given recent morph becomes a pet. This hinted at her...

... the docu- mentary was cemented and kicked into high gear by an ugly discourse that emerged several weeks after I learned of this epic runway event. In May...