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1 Contemporary Art in and Out Africa: Diasporic Resonance

2 The Spectacle of Human Difference: The Exotic “Other” And Colonial Misadventure

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

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

5 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”

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

7 Josephine Baker and the cult of Negrophilia

8 In 1830 two Taxidermists—The Verreaux Brothers stole the remain of a recently Deceased San man from his grave. “El Negro”, Stuffed remains of a Southern African Man displayed at Darder Museum Banyole, Spain for about 170 years Before it was returned to Botswana In 2000

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

10 The Great Exhibition The Great Exhibition, London, 1851

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

12 Dahomey Village, Midway Plaisance World ‘s Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893.

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

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

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

16 Jasper Johns, Flag, wax encaustic on canvas, 1962

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

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

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

20 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

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

22 At the Heart of the Empire

23 Yinka Shonibare, Scramble for Africa, installation 14 chairs, 14 tables Wax prints, 2000

24 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 Art Photography by Erik Gould

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

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

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

28 Dean Simon, Mandela surrounded by Peacemaker around the World, black & white painting 2013

29 Edouard Manet, Olympia, oil on canvas, 1863

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

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

32 Renee Cox, Cousins at pussy pond, 2001

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

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

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

36 Nkisi Nkonde, Kongo Peoples, Zaire Wood, cord, iron, nails, feathers, pigment Natural fibers 20th century h. 83 cm

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

38 The Dinya Head Nok, Nigeria c. 500 BC – AD 200 ( 2500 – 1800 BP ) Terracotta 36 x 22.5 cm

39 El Anatsui, Chambers of Memory, Terracotta, 1979

40 El Anatsui Patches of History III Wood 1993

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

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

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