Revue Noire RN°01 : OUSMANE SOW (Senegal) + AFRICAN LONDON (UK)
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Editor Jean Loup Pivin. Monography Ousmane Sow (Senegal), monumental sculptures of clay, and contemporay African art in London (UK), portfolios and panorama of Black British artists , events, institutions, places : art, photo, literature, dance, theatre, music, architecture, heritage, design, ritual art, talks, memory, art news. Edition May 1991. In French and English. 56 pages 23x33 cm.    (20 €OUT OF PRINT - only AVAILABLE in PDF )

On a Shady Terrace.
Revue Noire should be savoured on a shady terrace like a glass of ginger. It's the spirit of the lamp of words, born in Africa ; it has inherited light and shade from that terrace, sweet, perfumed bitterners from that ginger, and the warmth of friendship. Revue Noire is not concerned with theorising on the universality of art or conceptual blocks or on an ever-forgotten continent. It is a wave of emotion riding back from the shores of Africa, bringing with it imprints, forms, movements of obvious power, from Africa as well as from the black lands of New York, London, Kingston and Paris. Unconstrained by the demands of “coteries” and institutions, it is an independant meeting-point and its golden rule is quality. It is a forum to speak of black African fine art in English and in French, in the hope that a majority of the still small group of collectors and art-lovers in this field may join us to create what will be the leading International Magazine of Contemporary African Art.
It is an inconditional act of love proving that beauty is our life and we all have the same trust for it. (editrorial extract, J.L. Pivin)

CONTENTS RN 01 OUSMANE SOW + AFRICAN LONDON :

ART / MONOGRAPHY / Ousmane Sow
BLACK LONDON / Saïd Adrus, Osi Audu, Franklyn Beckford, Frank Bowling, Sonia Boyce, Chila Burman, Eddie Chambers, Allan de Souza, Sokari Douglas Camp, Uzo Egonu, Denzil Forrester, Michèle Franklin, Lubaina Humid, Claudette Holmes, Gavin Jantjes, Emmanuel Taïwo Jegede, Claudette Johnson, Tam Joseph, Juginda Lamba, Donald Locke, John Lyons, Pitika Ntuli, Eugene Palmer, Keith Piper, Janet Ricketts, Vernica Ryan, Turunesh
ART / Hélène Delprat

PHOTO BLACK LONDON / Rotimi Fani Kayode, David A. Bailey, Monika Baker, Zarina Bhimji, Clement Cooper, Armet Francis, Sunil Gupta, Autograph

LITERATURE / Bruno Tilliette

THEATRE / François Campana, Sony Labou Tansi, Black Theatre Co-operative

CINEMA / Pierre Haffner, Black Audio Film Collective, John Akomfrah

MUSIC / Philippe Conrath

DESIGN / Kidy Bebey

RITUAL ART / Ntchaks kuba Zaire RDCongo

TALKS MEMORY / Pierre Gaudibert, Franscisco d'Alméida, "Adam Noir" Michel Tournier, Michel Leiris, Opération BBKB Bordeaux Bangui Kinshasa Brazzaville, Peter Blackman

BOOKS /  « Sur les Traces de l'Afrique fantôme » Françoise Huguier Michel Cressole, "Le décoratif" Jacques Soulillou, "La corne d'Afrique" photographies, "Les africanistes" Jean Laude, "Maisons peintes » Afrique du Sud

NEWS of the WORLD / "Black art, Ancestral legacy" Dallas, "Fondation Afrique en Créations" Patrice Peuteuil, "Art Contemporain du Sénégal" Paris Pierre Gaudibert, Ouattara, Matar, Occo, Bethe Sélassié

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