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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Black artist"”.
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Gold Griot: Jean-Michel Basquiat Telling (His) Story in Art
… with street art during the 1980s, the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat was largely regarded within the New York avant-garde, as ‘an exotic other,’ a token Black artist in the world of American modern art; a perception which forced him to examine and seek to define his sense of identity …
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Locating me in order to see you
… is a discussion of the inescapable labels of Black Artist and Black Art and what they imply within the context of Contemporary Art discourse with reference to Africa and more specifically, South Africa. As an emerging Contemporary African Artist I am faced with confronting some of the …
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Exit the Matrix, Enter the System: Capitalizing on Black Culture to Create and Sustain Community Institutions in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… tools, and forms of capital available to Black actors. Illuminating the political and economic contexts within which the work of community building takes place reveals both the possibilities and the limitations which face Black New Orleanians, embedded in this dynamic landscape. Attending …
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A Bohemian comes to Harlem : the literary career and critical theories of Wallace Thurman.
… the focal point, the central meeting place of Black Bohemia, was the residence of Wallace Thurman. Thurman, a black writer, became a central figure of the renaissance movement largely because of his life and his works which reveal his sense of isolation, alienation, and disillusionment. This …
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The Black Body in Political Photography, 1990-2020
Black political art has been an important element of Black liberation efforts in the 20th and 21st centuries. Black artist-activists of the past and present have demonstrated a concern with systems of oppression that perpetuate multiple forms of racial trauma in the lives of Black people. This …
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The postdramatic theatre of Athol Fugard and Maishe Maponya: commitment, collaboration, and experiment in apartheid South Africa
… examines. As such, it manifested in works of artists who appropriated the new dramatic techniques to represent their different contexts and emerging socio-political trends. The thesis examines the collaborative process of Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona in view of the critical debates about …
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Elizabeth Catlett's I Am the Negro Woman: Emerging from the Margins
… study focuses on African American artist Elizabeth Catlett’s linocut series I Am the Negro Woman, composed of fifteen images and executed in 1947 while Catlett was a visiting artist at the Taller de Graphica Popular in Mexico City. The series was exhibited shortly thereafter at the …