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FOUNDING PUBLISHER Okwui Enwezor EDITORS Okwui Enwezor Salah M. Hassan Chika Okeke-Agulu ASSOCIATE EDITORS Sarah Adams • Carl Hazelwood • Nancy Hynes Derek Conrad Murray • Sunanda Sanyal CONSULTING EDITORS Rory Bester • Isolde Brielmaier • Coco Fusco Kendell Geers • Michael Godby • Elizabeth Harney Thomas Mulcaire • O. Donald Odita • Gilane Tawadros Frank Ugiomoh MANAGING EDITOR Clare Ulrich GRAPHIC DESIGN Marshall Hopkins ADVISORY BOARD Norbert Aas • Florence Alexis • Rashid Diab Manthia Diawara • Elsabet Giorgis • Freida High dele jegede • Kellie Jones • Sandra Klopper David Koloane • Bongi Dhlomo Mautloa Gerardo Mosquera • Helen Evans Ramsaran Ibrahim El Salahi • Janet Stanley • Obiora Udechukwu Gavin Younge • Octavio Zaya Nka is published by Duke University Press on behalf of Nka Publications. Nka JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART FOUNDED 1994 Andy Warhol Foundation Nka wishes to acknowledge support for the publication of the journal through generous grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, The Hague, Netherlands, and David Hammons. Cover: Barkley L. Hendricks, Photo Bloke, 2016. Oil and acrylic on linen, 72 x 48 in. Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. © Barkley L. Hendricks CONTENTS NUMBER 38–39, 2016 RAMEZ ELIAS IN MEMORIAM 19582016 FROM THE EDITORS Cheryl Finley and Deborah Willis THE SLAVE AT THE LOUVRE AN INVISIBLE HUMANITY Françoise Vergès WHO’S ZOOMIN’ WHO? THE EYES OF DONYALE LUNA Richard J. Powell DEFACING THE GAZE AND REIMAGINING THE BLACK BODY CONTEMPORARY CARIBBEAN WOMEN ARTISTS Michelle Stephens BLACK, QUEER, DANDY THE BEAUTY WITHOUT WHOM WE CANNOT LIVE Monica L. Miller POSING THE BLACK PAINTER KERRY JAMES MARSHALL’S PORTRAITS OF ARTISTS’ SELFPORTRAITS Peter Erickson AU NÈGRE JOYEUX EVERYDAY ANTIBLACKNESS GUISED AS PUBLIC ART Trica Keaton SAGA BWOYS AND RUDE BWOYS MIGRATION, GROOMING, AND DANDYISM Michael McMillan 5 6 8 14 22 32 40 52 60
Transcript of 5 IN MEMORIAM ˜1958˚2016˛ JOURNAL OF …IN MEMORIAM ˜1958˚2016˛ ... PRINCE Yemane I. Demissie...
FOUNDING PUBLISHEROkwui Enwezor
EDITORSOkwui Enwezor Salah M. Hassan Chika Okeke-Agulu
ASSOCIATE EDITORSSarah Adams • Carl Hazelwood • Nancy HynesDerek Conrad Murray • Sunanda Sanyal
CONSULTING EDITORSRory Bester • Isolde Brielmaier • Coco FuscoKendell Geers • Michael Godby • Elizabeth Harney Thomas Mulcaire • O. Donald Odita • Gilane TawadrosFrank Ugiomoh
MANAGING EDITORClare Ulrich
GRAPHIC DESIGNMarshall Hopkins
ADVISORY BOARDNorbert Aas • Florence Alexis • Rashid Diab Manthia Diawara • Elsabet Giorgis • Freida Highdele jegede • Kellie Jones • Sandra KlopperDavid Koloane • Bongi Dhlomo Mautloa Gerardo Mosquera • Helen Evans RamsaranIbrahim El Salahi • Janet Stanley • Obiora Udechukwu Gavin Younge • Octavio Zaya
Nka is published by Duke University Press on behalf of Nka Publications.
NkaJOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ARTFOUNDED 1994
Andy Warhol Foundation
Nka wishes to acknowledge support for the publication of the journal through generous grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, The Hague, Netherlands, and David Hammons.
Cover: Barkley L. Hendricks, Photo Bloke, 2016. Oil and acrylic on linen, 72 x
48 in. Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. © Barkley L.
Hendricks
CONTENTSNUMBER 38–39, 2016
RAMEZ ELIASIN MEMORIAM 19582016
FROM THE EDITORSCheryl Finley and Deborah Willis
THE SLAVE AT THE LOUVREAN INVISIBLE HUMANITYFrançoise Vergès
WHO’S ZOOMIN’ WHO?THE EYES OF DONYALE LUNARichard J. Powell
DEFACING THE GAZE AND REIMAGINING THE BLACK BODYCONTEMPORARY CARIBBEAN WOMEN ARTISTSMichelle Stephens
BLACK, QUEER, DANDYTHE BEAUTY WITHOUT WHOMWE CANNOT LIVEMonica L. Miller
POSING THE BLACK PAINTERKERRY JAMES MARSHALL’S PORTRAITS OF ARTISTS’ SELFPORTRAITSPeter Erickson
AU NÈGRE JOYEUXEVERYDAY ANTIBLACKNESS GUISED AS PUBLIC ARTTrica Keaton
SAGA BWOYS AND RUDE BWOYSMIGRATION, GROOMING, AND DANDYISMMichael McMillan
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PORTRAITS IN BLACKSTYLING, SPACE, AND SELF IN THE WORK OF BARKLEY L. HENDRICKS AND ELIZABETH COLOMBAAnna Arabindan-Kesson
POSTPOSTBLACK?Nana Adusei-Poku
CONFESSIONS OF A BLACK FEMINIST ACADEMIC PORNOGRAPHERMireille Miller-Young
A PICTURE’S WORTHTOWARD THEORIZING A BLACK/QUEER GAZE IN THE INTERNET “PORNUTOPIA”Jafari Sinclaire Allen
ICONS BROUGHT FORWARDRENÉE COX’S QUEEN NANNY OF THE MAROONSKimberli Gant
THE UNNAMED BODYENCOUNTERING, COMMODIFYING, AND CODIFYING THE IMAGE OFTHE BLACK FEMALEAlissandra Cummins and Allison Thompson
NO MORE “POISONOUS, DISRESPECTFUL, AND SKEWED IMAGES OF BLACK PEOPLE”BARBARA WALKER’S LOUDER THAN WORDS Celeste-Marie Bernier
HANK WILLIS THOMASA NECESSARY CAUTIONKerr Houston
NO BODY’S PERFECTKanitra Fletcher
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JAMES BARNOREVER YOUNG, NEVER SLEEPRenée Mussai
MAKING SPACE, CHANGING SPACEBLACK PEOPLE AND NEW MUSEUMSNgaire Blankenberg
OTA BENGA IN THE ARCHIVESUNMAKING MYTHS, MAPPING RESISTANCE IN THE MARGINS OF HISTORYPamela Newkirk
BUST BRAWLTHE BATTLE OVER A BLACK BRONZE PRINCEYemane I. Demissie
BENDING HISTORYMaaza Mengiste
DIFFERENT, BUT NOT ABNORMAL“OUT” IN AFRICALyle Ashton Harris
RECLAIMING HISTORYA VISUAL ESSAYElizabeth Colomba
FROM BODY TO DISEMBODIMENTJean-Ulrick Désert
BLACK PRESENCE IN FRANCELewis Watts
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READING BASQUIATEXPLORING AMBIVALENCE IN AMERICAN ART
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