The film reveals how the African American sculptor Melvin Edwards, nowadays a worldwide recognized artist, has established along 5 decades his own artistic language.----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Synopsis Born in the South of the US in the late 30’s, during the segregation, nowadays the sculptor Melvin Edwards is a worldwide recognized artist. As black internationalist, pan-Africanist, and… Continue reading “Some Bright Morning: The Art of Melvin Edwards,” a documentary by Lydie Diakhaté
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Selected articles
Art critic specializing in the arts and cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora Lydie Diakhaté has written for various magazines and newspapers. “Melvin Edwards and the Poetic of a Blacksmith,” Wasafiri Magazine, Routledge (August 2015); “Jo Ractliffe, Photographer from South Africa”, NKA, Spring 2012. “Salif Traoré, photographe sans frontière / Photographer without borders”, in Salif… Continue reading Selected articles
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