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Atta Kwami is a painter, printmaker, independent art historian and curator. He trained and taught in Kumasi, Ghana and in the UK.
Kumasi Realism 1951-2007: An African Modernism by Atta Kwami (2013)
Western approaches to Africa’s visual culture have until recently separated ‘traditional’ from ‘modern’ as if the two categories had no common ground, and as if only the former was authentically African. Yet ‘tradition’ is also an active process of handing on, one subject to evolution, development and history…Among the Ghanaian painters discussed are E.V. Asihene, Grace Kwami, E.K.J. Tetteh, Ablade Glover, Ato Delaquis, B. Offei Nyako, Atta Kwami, kari’kacha seid’ou, Bob Acheampong and many others whose practice was college based. Kwami also discusses the art and lives of Kumasi’s leading sign painters – King Samino (King Samino Sign Art Services), Alex Amofa (Supreme Art Works), Kwame Akoto (Almighty God Art Works), Isaac Azey Otchere (Azey Alberto Art & Sign Service), and Isumaila Moro (Iss Hi-Tech Prints).
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Eve Arnold photographs a young girl at school being taught how to ignore racial abuse that she may experience out on the street
Hands down one of the saddest and most effecting images I’ve posted on the blog but one that I think is important to highlight that the Sixties was every bit as violent and oppressive as it was innovative and seemingly forward thinking
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Lathe chairs VIII, 2008 Sebastian Brajkovic
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Reflecting the Field of Love, Yayoi Kusama, 2011
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Kate Moss by Karl Lagerfeld, Fendi SS 2002
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Angela Lindvall by Enrique Badulescu, 1999
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