Contemporary Art in and Out Africa: Diasporic Resonance.

Contemporary Art in and Out Africa:

Diasporic Resonance

The Spectacle of Human Difference: The Exotic “Other”

And Colonial Misadventure

Renee Cox,Saartjie Baartman(Hottentot Venus)Photography, 1995

A French print “La Belle Hottentot” after the display and objectification of Sarah Bartman (Saartje Bartman) in Britain and France, ca. 1814

Unknown artist, Femme de race Boschimanne,Water color on velum, 1815—supposedly an illustration of a (Khoisan) South African Woman with extended steatopgyia—pandering to European fantasy of the exotic “other”

Cartoon based on Saartjie (Sarah) Baartman,The Hottentot Venus

Josephine Baker and the cult of Negrophilia

In 1830 two Taxidermists—The VerreauxBrothers stole the remain of a recently Deceased San man from his grave. “El Negro”,Stuffed remains of a Southern AfricanMan displayed at Darder MuseumBanyole, Spain for about 170 yearsBefore it was returned to BotswanaIn 2000

Joseph Paxton, The Crystal Palace, 1851….destroyed by fire November 30, 1936

The Great Exhibition The Great Exhibition, London, 1851

Display of Goods from England, The Great Exhibition, 1851The Great Exhibition

Dahomey Village, Midway Plaisance World ‘s Columbian Exposition, Chicago1893.

British Marines displaying their loot after the sack of Benin, 1897

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, oil on canvas, 1907

Faith Ringgold, Picasso’s Studio, Acrylic on canvas And tie-dye fabric, 1991

Jasper Johns, Flag, wax encaustic on canvas, 1962

Faith Ringgold, Flag is Bleeding, oil on canvas, 1967

Faith Ringgold, Flag for the Moon: Die N…, o/c 1969

Betye Saar, The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, mixed media, 1972

Chris Ofili,The Holy Virgin Mary,Acrylic, resin, oil paper collage,Elephant dung on linen,1996

Imagery of Mary the mother of Jesus; asexualized imagery of Aunt Jemima-the Black Mammy stereotype, domestic/wet nurse

Kara Walker—a subtlety or the marvelous Sugar Baby, 2014

At the Heart of the Empire

Yinka Shonibare, Scramble for Africa, installation 14 chairs, 14 tablesWax prints, 2000

Yinka Shonibare, Un Ballo in Maschera (Courtiers V) Three mannequins on glass bases, Dutch wax-printed cotton fabric, leather shoes.67 x 120 x 72" (overall), The Richard Brown Baker Fund for Contemporary British ArtPhotography by Erik Gould

Leonardo da Vinci, Last Supper, 1498, tempera and oil on plaster (Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan)

Yinka Shonibare, The Last Supper (after Leonardo) mixed media, 2013

Renee Cox, Yo Mama Last Supper, C-Print Photograph, 1996

Dean Simon, Mandela surrounded by Peacemaker around the World, black & white painting2013

Edouard Manet, Olympia, oil on canvas, 1863

Renee Cox, Olympia’s Boyz, Digital c-print, 2001

Edouard Manet, "The Luncheon on the Grass“, oil on canvas, 1862/1863

Renee Cox, Cousins at pussy pond, 2001

Bernie Searle,Snow White,“Still” Photo-reproduction from Her “Two Projector video installation”2001

Bernie Searle, Untitled form The Color Me Series, Photo-reproduction, 1998-9

Jane Alexander, Butcher Boys, mixed media, 1985-86

Nkisi Nkonde,Kongo Peoples, ZaireWood, cord, iron, nails, feathers, pigmentNatural fibers20th century h. 83 cm

Renee Stout,Fetish # 2,Mixed media, 1988h. 64 in. (162 cm)

The Dinya HeadNok, Nigeriac. 500 BC – AD 200( 2500 – 1800 BP )Terracotta36 x 22.5 cm

El Anatsui,Chambers of Memory,Terracotta,1979

El AnatsuiPatches of History IIIWood1993

El Anatsui, Earth’s Skin, mixed media, 2007

El Anatsui, Searching for Connections (TsiaTsia ) bottle tops, printing plates,Aluminum and Copper wire, 2013

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