Salah M Hassan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1591450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Salah M Hassan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Salah M |
| FAMILY NAME | Hassan |
| SIGNATURE | HASSAN S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Salah M. Hassan is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Africana Studies and Research Center; director of the Institute for Comparative Modernities; and professor of African and African diaspora art history and visual culture at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He currently serves as director of the Africa Institute, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
To Be Free! The Art of Gavin Jantjes
This article contemplates the life and work of the Oxford-based South African artist and activist Gavin Jantjes, born in 1948 when apartheid officially became the law of the land in South Africa with the National Party’s election to power. Because Jantjes’s understanding of his role as an artist took shape in Cape Town in the 1960s, when every aspect of his life was dominated by the racism of the apartheid state, he has questioned both the incong…
When Art Becomes Liberty
The 2015 Egyptian Surrealists in Global Perspective conference, and the companion 2016 exhibition When Art Becomes Liberty: The Egyptian Surrealists (1938–1965), both held in Cairo, Egypt, explored the history and evolution of the work of Egyptian surrealists and their remarkable legacy within Egypt and in international surrealist circles. This article serves as a preview of contributions to this special issue of Nka, which serves as a followup t…
Kamal Youssef
Research Article| November 01 2021 Kamal Youssef: Egyptian Surrealism’s Time Capsule: A Tribute Salah M. Hassan Salah M. Hassan Salah M. Hassan is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Africana Studies and Research Center; director of the Institute for Comparative Modernities; and professor of African and African diaspora art history and visual culture at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He currently serves as director of the Africa …
Tejumola “Teju” Olaniyan
Ahmed Morsi
Born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1930, Ahmed Morsi is a multitalented artist who seamlessly moves between different genres and modes of creative expression. A brilliant painter, an eloquent poet, and a sharp art and literary critic whose career has spanned more than seven decades, his work has been enriched by the experience of living in three continents. While Morsi’s oeuvre is the embodiment of polyphony, a unifying force that defies any singular …
Contemporary African Art as a Paradox
The field of contemporary African and African diaspora art and culture is currently riddled by two paradoxes. First, in Africa and its diaspora, we are witnessing a burgeoning of creative energy and an increasing visibility of artists in the international arts arena. Yet, this energy and visibility has not been matched by a parallel regime of art criticism that lives up to the levels of their work. Second, we find a rising interest in exhibiting …
Okwui Enwezor
Research Article| May 01 2019 Okwui Enwezor: In Memoriam (1963–2019) Salah M. Hassan; Salah M. Hassan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Chika Okeke-Agulu Chika Okeke-Agulu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2019) 2019 (44): 5. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-7682518 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Salah M. Hassan, Chika Okeke-A…
How to Liberate Marx from his Eurocentrism?”
In spite of his visionary work and enduring legacy, Karl Marx was a product of his time and of Europe as a rising colonial empire with ambitions of conquest and domination, and the larger framework of his analysis was bound by the evolutionary thinking of that time. Most western scholars of Marxism have, thus far, ignored non-Western (including African) contributions to Marxism as they have been appropriated and reshaped in the context of decolon…
Global Black Consciousness
Brevity is the Soul of Wit
Ramez Elias
Obituary| November 01 2016 RAMEZ ELIAS: In Memoriam (1958–2016) Okwui Enwezor; Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Chika Okeke-Agulu; Chika Okeke-Agulu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Salah M. Hassan Salah M. Hassan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 5. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-3777031 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook T…
"Ibrahim El Salahi's "Prison Notebook: A Visual Memoir
The last two decades have marked the publication of a number of prison memoirs and testimonials written by former leftist political prisoners in Sudan. Unlike reports issued by international human rights organizations, these publications foreground a much more personal and autobiographical element to the legacy of political incarceration in Sudan. Yet, most of these memoirs tend to be in written form, and rarely have they been combined with visua…
African Modernism: Beyond Alternative Modernities Discourse
Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan: A Left Perspective
This essay highlights the selective ways in which the conflict in Darfur has been presented, represented, and used by a range of actors in and outside of Sudan to promote their own agendas and interests. It draws attention to the urgency of apprehending the politics of representation around Darfur "from within." Focusing on Sudan's historically strong civil society, the essay elucidates how the Sudanese civil society's analysis of the country's c…
The Twenty-First Century and the Mega Shows: A Curators’ Roundtable
Research Article| May 01 2008 THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AND THE MEGA SHOWS: A CURATORS' ROUNDTABLE Salah M. Hassan Salah M. Hassan Ithaca, NY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2008) 2008 (22-23): 152–188. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-22-23-1-152 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Salah M. Hassan; THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AND THE MEGA SHOWS: A CURATORS' ROUNDTABL…
Parle de moi comme je suis: Représentation d'une cité hybride
Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour Karthala. Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour Karthala. La reproduction ou reprsentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorise que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement. Toute autre reproduction ou reprsentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manire q…
"Authentic/Ex-Centric" at the Venice Biennale: African Conceptualism in Global Contexts
Presentation et commentaire de l'exposition Authentic/Ex-centric: Africa In and Out of Africa qui s'est tenue dans le cadre de la quarante-neuvieme biennale de Venise (Italie, 2001). Cette exposition regroupait les travaux de sept artistes africains et de la diaspora africaine, travaux d'art conceptuel (peinture, sculpture, photographie, video, installations multimedia) qui interrogent la nature de la production artistique africaine contemporaine…
Native to Native the Sculpture of Ousmane Sow
The Modernist Experience in African Art: Visual Expressions of the Self and Cross-Cultural Aesthetics
Research Article| May 01 1995 THE MODERNIST EXPERIENCE IN AFRICAN ART: VISUAL EXPRESSIONS OF THE SELF AND CROSS-CULTURAL AESTHETICS Salah Hassan Salah Hassan Salah Hassan is an Assistant Professor of African Art at the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He is an Editor of Nka Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (1995) 1995 (2): 30–33. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-2-1-30 C…
Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature
I Run with YouA Vision Mu'een BseisoAladdin's Lamp for Sahba'Diary of Old Man DefectorThe Vinegar CupSailor Returning from Occupied ShoresFootstepsI Was Already Dead! Hasan al-BuhairiOrange BlossomsThe Malady and The Cure Ahmad DahbourNew SuggestionsThe Terms of AmbitionI Do Not Renounce MadnessOur Country Waleed KhazindarBelongingHousesAt LeastBramblesYou Will Arrive: BewilderedThat DayAbsenceThe Storm Rasim al-MadhounOne Thousand and One...Nigh…
Contemporary African Artists: Changing Tradition
The Modernist Experience in African Art: Visual Expressions of the Self and Cross-Cultural Aesthetics
Research Article| May 01 1995 THE MODERNIST EXPERIENCE IN AFRICAN ART: VISUAL EXPRESSIONS OF THE SELF AND CROSS-CULTURAL AESTHETICS Salah Hassan Salah Hassan Salah Hassan is an Assistant Professor of African Art at the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He is an Editor of Nka Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (1995) 1995 (2): 30–33. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-2-1-30 C…
African Modernism: Beyond Alternative Modernities Discourse
Tejumola “Teju” Olaniyan
Contemporary African Art as a Paradox
The field of contemporary African and African diaspora art and culture is currently riddled by two paradoxes. First, in Africa and its diaspora, we are witnessing a burgeoning of creative energy and an increasing visibility of artists in the international arts arena. Yet, this energy and visibility has not been matched by a parallel regime of art criticism that lives up to the levels of their work. Second, we find a rising interest in exhibiting …
The Twenty-First Century and the Mega Shows: A Curators’ Roundtable
Research Article| May 01 2008 THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AND THE MEGA SHOWS: A CURATORS' ROUNDTABLE Salah M. Hassan Salah M. Hassan Ithaca, NY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2008) 2008 (22-23): 152–188. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-22-23-1-152 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Salah M. Hassan; THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AND THE MEGA SHOWS: A CURATORS' ROUNDTABL…
"Authentic/Ex-Centric" at the Venice Biennale: African Conceptualism in Global Contexts
Presentation et commentaire de l'exposition Authentic/Ex-centric: Africa In and Out of Africa qui s'est tenue dans le cadre de la quarante-neuvieme biennale de Venise (Italie, 2001). Cette exposition regroupait les travaux de sept artistes africains et de la diaspora africaine, travaux d'art conceptuel (peinture, sculpture, photographie, video, installations multimedia) qui interrogent la nature de la production artistique africaine contemporaine…
Contemporary African Artists: Changing Tradition
Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature
I Run with YouA Vision Mu'een BseisoAladdin's Lamp for Sahba'Diary of Old Man DefectorThe Vinegar CupSailor Returning from Occupied ShoresFootstepsI Was Already Dead! Hasan al-BuhairiOrange BlossomsThe Malady and The Cure Ahmad DahbourNew SuggestionsThe Terms of AmbitionI Do Not Renounce MadnessOur Country Waleed KhazindarBelongingHousesAt LeastBramblesYou Will Arrive: BewilderedThat DayAbsenceThe Storm Rasim al-MadhounOne Thousand and One...Nigh…
The Modernist Experience in African Art: Visual Expressions of the Self and Cross-Cultural Aesthetics
Research Article| May 01 1995 THE MODERNIST EXPERIENCE IN AFRICAN ART: VISUAL EXPRESSIONS OF THE SELF AND CROSS-CULTURAL AESTHETICS Salah Hassan Salah Hassan Salah Hassan is an Assistant Professor of African Art at the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He is an Editor of Nka Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (1995) 1995 (2): 30–33. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-2-1-30 C…
Native to Native the Sculpture of Ousmane Sow
"Authentic/Ex-Centric" at the Venice Biennale: African Conceptualism in Global Contexts
Presentation et commentaire de l'exposition Authentic/Ex-centric: Africa In and Out of Africa qui s'est tenue dans le cadre de la quarante-neuvieme biennale de Venise (Italie, 2001). Cette exposition regroupait les travaux de sept artistes africains et de la diaspora africaine, travaux d'art conceptuel (peinture, sculpture, photographie, video, installations multimedia) qui interrogent la nature de la production artistique africaine contemporaine…
Parle de moi comme je suis: Représentation d'une cité hybride
Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour Karthala. Distribution lectronique Cairn.info pour Karthala. La reproduction ou reprsentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorise que dans les limites des conditions gnrales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas chant, des conditions gnrales de la licence souscrite par votre tablissement. Toute autre reproduction ou reprsentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manire q…
The Twenty-First Century and the Mega Shows: A Curators’ Roundtable
Research Article| May 01 2008 THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AND THE MEGA SHOWS: A CURATORS' ROUNDTABLE Salah M. Hassan Salah M. Hassan Ithaca, NY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2008) 2008 (22-23): 152–188. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-22-23-1-152 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Salah M. Hassan; THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AND THE MEGA SHOWS: A CURATORS' ROUNDTABL…
"Ibrahim El Salahi's "Prison Notebook: A Visual Memoir
The last two decades have marked the publication of a number of prison memoirs and testimonials written by former leftist political prisoners in Sudan. Unlike reports issued by international human rights organizations, these publications foreground a much more personal and autobiographical element to the legacy of political incarceration in Sudan. Yet, most of these memoirs tend to be in written form, and rarely have they been combined with visua…
African Modernism: Beyond Alternative Modernities Discourse
Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan: A Left Perspective
This essay highlights the selective ways in which the conflict in Darfur has been presented, represented, and used by a range of actors in and outside of Sudan to promote their own agendas and interests. It draws attention to the urgency of apprehending the politics of representation around Darfur "from within." Focusing on Sudan's historically strong civil society, the essay elucidates how the Sudanese civil society's analysis of the country's c…
Ramez Elias
Obituary| November 01 2016 RAMEZ ELIAS: In Memoriam (1958–2016) Okwui Enwezor; Okwui Enwezor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Chika Okeke-Agulu; Chika Okeke-Agulu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Salah M. Hassan Salah M. Hassan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2016) 2016 (38-39): 5. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-3777031 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook T…
Brevity is the Soul of Wit
How to Liberate Marx from his Eurocentrism?”
In spite of his visionary work and enduring legacy, Karl Marx was a product of his time and of Europe as a rising colonial empire with ambitions of conquest and domination, and the larger framework of his analysis was bound by the evolutionary thinking of that time. Most western scholars of Marxism have, thus far, ignored non-Western (including African) contributions to Marxism as they have been appropriated and reshaped in the context of decolon…
Global Black Consciousness
Okwui Enwezor
Research Article| May 01 2019 Okwui Enwezor: In Memoriam (1963–2019) Salah M. Hassan; Salah M. Hassan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Chika Okeke-Agulu Chika Okeke-Agulu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nka (2019) 2019 (44): 5. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-7682518 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Salah M. Hassan, Chika Okeke-A…
Tejumola “Teju” Olaniyan
Ahmed Morsi
Born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1930, Ahmed Morsi is a multitalented artist who seamlessly moves between different genres and modes of creative expression. A brilliant painter, an eloquent poet, and a sharp art and literary critic whose career has spanned more than seven decades, his work has been enriched by the experience of living in three continents. While Morsi’s oeuvre is the embodiment of polyphony, a unifying force that defies any singular …
Contemporary African Art as a Paradox
The field of contemporary African and African diaspora art and culture is currently riddled by two paradoxes. First, in Africa and its diaspora, we are witnessing a burgeoning of creative energy and an increasing visibility of artists in the international arts arena. Yet, this energy and visibility has not been matched by a parallel regime of art criticism that lives up to the levels of their work. Second, we find a rising interest in exhibiting …
When Art Becomes Liberty
The 2015 Egyptian Surrealists in Global Perspective conference, and the companion 2016 exhibition When Art Becomes Liberty: The Egyptian Surrealists (1938–1965), both held in Cairo, Egypt, explored the history and evolution of the work of Egyptian surrealists and their remarkable legacy within Egypt and in international surrealist circles. This article serves as a preview of contributions to this special issue of Nka, which serves as a followup t…
Kamal Youssef
Research Article| November 01 2021 Kamal Youssef: Egyptian Surrealism’s Time Capsule: A Tribute Salah M. Hassan Salah M. Hassan Salah M. Hassan is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Africana Studies and Research Center; director of the Institute for Comparative Modernities; and professor of African and African diaspora art history and visual culture at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. He currently serves as director of the Africa …
To Be Free! The Art of Gavin Jantjes
This article contemplates the life and work of the Oxford-based South African artist and activist Gavin Jantjes, born in 1948 when apartheid officially became the law of the land in South Africa with the National Party’s election to power. Because Jantjes’s understanding of his role as an artist took shape in Cape Town in the 1960s, when every aspect of his life was dominated by the racism of the apartheid state, he has questioned both the incong…
Art (17 works) · Visual arts (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · African history and culture studies (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art history (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Citation (5 works)