Christine Checinska
Biographic Data
| ID | 6297827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Checinska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Checinska |
| SIGNATURE | CHECINSKA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg, Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Africa Fashion in Focus
Fashioning Global Africa
Aesthetics of Blackness? Cloth, Culture, and the African Diasporas
Keywords: African Diasporasvernacular culturestextilesfashiondomestic spacesarchivescultural and social historiescreolizationpostcolonialself-representation
Barbara Walker Sub Urban
British artist Barbara Walker makes drawings of people. She makes drawings of people using charcoal and a soft pencil. She makes drawings of men and women; huge, larger than life, floor to ceiling drawings rendered directly onto the wall. Each fold, crease, line, and blemish of her sitters’ bodies and the clothes that enfold them are sensitively transcribed in the smallest of detail. But we never see her sitters’ faces. And each wall is wiped cle…
Christine Checinska in Conversation with Althea McNish and John Weiss
Artist Althea McNish’s contribution both to the field of textile design in Britain and to British culture itself is unmatched. Amongst the first, if not the first, designer of African-Caribbean descent to achieve international recognition, McNish injected much-needed color and life into the post-war fashion and textiles industry from the 1950s onwards. As her partner and husband John Weiss writes, “She brought to London a tropical framework of re…
Stylin’
In this article, Christine Checinska aims to: (i) outline the carnivalised theoretical approach that characterises her analysis of African diasporic cultural expressions, (ii) explore the creolised aesthetic that shapes the styling—or stylin’, in colloquial terms—adopted by African diasporic men in the Caribbean, and (iii) to posit the notion of stylin’ as a creolised non-verbal Nation Language (a term coined by Kamau Brathwaite; see History of t…
Scat
scat n. 1. a type of jazz singing characterized by improvised vocal sounds instead of words. ~ vb. scatting, scatted. 2. (intr.) to sing jazz in this way.1Presented at Iniva, London, and curated by
Stylin’
In this article, Christine Checinska aims to: (i) outline the carnivalised theoretical approach that characterises her analysis of African diasporic cultural expressions, (ii) explore the creolised aesthetic that shapes the styling—or stylin’, in colloquial terms—adopted by African diasporic men in the Caribbean, and (iii) to posit the notion of stylin’ as a creolised non-verbal Nation Language (a term coined by Kamau Brathwaite; see History of t…
Scat
scat n. 1. a type of jazz singing characterized by improvised vocal sounds instead of words. ~ vb. scatting, scatted. 2. (intr.) to sing jazz in this way.1Presented at Iniva, London, and curated by
Stylin’
In this article, Christine Checinska aims to: (i) outline the carnivalised theoretical approach that characterises her analysis of African diasporic cultural expressions, (ii) explore the creolised aesthetic that shapes the styling—or stylin’, in colloquial terms—adopted by African diasporic men in the Caribbean, and (iii) to posit the notion of stylin’ as a creolised non-verbal Nation Language (a term coined by Kamau Brathwaite; see History of t…
Aesthetics of Blackness? Cloth, Culture, and the African Diasporas
Keywords: African Diasporasvernacular culturestextilesfashiondomestic spacesarchivescultural and social historiescreolizationpostcolonialself-representation
Barbara Walker Sub Urban
British artist Barbara Walker makes drawings of people. She makes drawings of people using charcoal and a soft pencil. She makes drawings of men and women; huge, larger than life, floor to ceiling drawings rendered directly onto the wall. Each fold, crease, line, and blemish of her sitters’ bodies and the clothes that enfold them are sensitively transcribed in the smallest of detail. But we never see her sitters’ faces. And each wall is wiped cle…
Christine Checinska in Conversation with Althea McNish and John Weiss
Artist Althea McNish’s contribution both to the field of textile design in Britain and to British culture itself is unmatched. Amongst the first, if not the first, designer of African-Caribbean descent to achieve international recognition, McNish injected much-needed color and life into the post-war fashion and textiles industry from the 1950s onwards. As her partner and husband John Weiss writes, “She brought to London a tropical framework of re…
Africa Fashion in Focus
Fashioning Global Africa
Art (6 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works)