... classical representational Old Master painting black body RECLAIMING HISTORY A VISUAL ESSAY Elizabeth Colomba eing of Martinique descent but born and is associated with the butterfly, and so forth. raised in France has shaped and influenced Thus, skin color no longer dictates...

...Salah Hassan Copyright © 1995 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1995 THE MODERNIST EXPERIENCE IN AFRICAN ART Skunder Boghassian.Time Cycle II, 1982 (Embossed bark cloth-30" x 40 Collection of the artist. VISUAL...

...Leena Habiballa [email protected] © 2020 Tropics of Meta 2020 THE VISUAL LIFE Archival and Counter-archival Narratives of Revolt Leena Habiballa 6 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 52 May 2023 DOI 10.1215/10757163-10434938 © 2020 Tropics of Meta OF REVOLUTION Suha...

... from his homeland of the Sudan to Kodi's work, "the post-inde• remain spectators, just as is the ASRAR: A Visual Dialogue case...

...Gen Doy Copyright © 2001 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2001 shism and Black Beauties." Since Black Visual Culture...

..., must confront the specter of long-term incarcera - tion, among other overwhelming vulnerabilities, as A Visual...

...Daniel Widener The visual arts played a critical role in the cultural awakening that began with the Second World War and flourished in the aftermath of the Watts riots. In searching for new means of expression rooted in and relevant to the communities from which they came, black artists based...

... the Symbionese Liberation Army are most often remembered through their spectacular representation in visual media culture rather than through their political actions or agendas. Video and film projects such as Raymond Pettibon and David Markey’s Citizen Tania (1989), Isaac Julien’s Baltimore (2003), Sharon...

... the racial dynamic of Shakespeare’s plot? By using visual art to intervene in a literary classic, Wilson’s work performs an excavation that disrupts the conventional response to Shakespeare’s tragic script and opens up new possibilities for revisionary interpretations capable of transforming our view...

... ability to layer multiple “stories” by evincing a temporal, spatial, and kinetic aesthetic in his visual work; on his choice of and approach to his materials; and on the changes in his oeuvre over the years: from painting and mixed media to monumental steel sculptures of Amharic letters, constructed...

...Peter Erickson Focusing primarily on Isaac Julien’s two Paradise Omeros films (2002–3), but also with further reference to Looking for Langston (1989) and Ten Thousand Waves (2010), I explore the figure of the poet and the concept of the poetic in Julien’s visual work. Just as Paradise Omeros...

...Leigh Raiford Lynching, Visuality, and the Un/Making of Blackness Leigh Raiford hen Ida B. Wells and the NAACP tion, and memorialization of the black body from W embarked on the sustained and highly the late nineteenth century...

...Walter Cohen Lynching, Visuality, Empire m Walter Cohen A t the metacritical center of the material need not be seen along a single historical axis or in a recovered in Without Sanctuary is an obvi• single...

... footage of the young Satterwhite s fam- ily. In addition to the dynamic visuals, the artist scores the work with a soundtrack taken directly from the 1989 home video, creating an immediate disjuncture between futuristic cyberscape and the sounds of 1980s dance music. The music, even as it indexes a time...

...Gilane Tawadros Three works made up the exhibition Scat—Sonia Boyce: Sound and Collaboration , presented by Sonia Boyce and the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva) at Rivington Place in London from June through July 2013. The three works use image and sound in strikingly different...

... ultimately interested in representational then desire settings indicate an intrinsic logic for collectivities, or what is screened, imaged, and per- finding meaningful place, an advantageous position formed. To this end, I map visual and sonic rep- A desire path. Courtesy the author 82 • Nka...

... the work of other artists who were active in the 1930s through the 1960s such as Amy Nimr, Inji Efflatoun, and Mounir Canaan, among others, who exhibited with the Art and Liberty group and the Contemporary Art Group, alongside the work of those who independently espoused a similar visual vocabulary...

... the current changes going on in the world, as the wider impacts of the Anthropocene age are becoming increasingly obvious to all of us. Carol Boram-Hays is an associate professor of history of art and visual culture at Columbus College of Art and Design, in Ohio. Notes 1 Wasswa Donald Augustine a.k.a. Waswad...