| Abstract | In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Salah M. Hassan Salah Hassan, Assistant Professor of African Art History at the State University of New York at Buffalo, received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently a visiting professor at Africans Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, and was a J Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellow for 1992-1993. He is author of Art and Islamic Literacy among the Hausa of Northern Nigeria (The Edward Mellen Press, 1992) and curator of Creative Impulses/Modern Expressions: Four African Artists, an exhibition of contemporary African art held at the Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University (1993). Notes: 1. Today, the Khartoum School is a semi-independent college affiliated with Sudan University of Technology (Known in the past as Khartoum Polytechnic). The College, established in the late 1930s as the School of Design of Gordon Memorial College (now the University of Khartoum), evolved into a Department of Arts and Crafts within the Khartoum Polytechnic in the early 1950s, and finally became a full-fleged College of Fine and Applied Art as it is known today 2. The term "Khartoum School" was first introduced by Denis Williams, an African-American scholar from Trinidad who taught at the College of Fine Applied Art in Khartoum in the early 1960s 3. For more information on this issue see Abdal-Hai, M (1976), and Ibrahim, M. (1976) 4. See Hassan (1993). 5. Several essays and exchanges related to that debate were published in the weekly culture and arts section of Al-Ayyam, the daily newspaper, and in the Journal of Sudanese Culture, (published by the now defunct Department of Culture). Ironically the debate took place daring the military dictatorship of General Nimeri which lasted from 1969-1985 Between the early 1970s and the early 1980s, the regime managed to coopt liberal and independent leftist intellectuals to work within its ranks, who in turn tried intelligently to use the space allowed to further their own artistic and literary agenda. 6. Interview with the artist, March, 14, 1993 A retrospective exhibition of Rashid Diab's work from 1983-1993 curated by Salah Hassan was shown at The Museum of the National Center of Afro-America Artist, Boston, April through July, 1994 Copyright © 1994 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art Project MUSE® - View Citation MLA APA Chicago Endnote Salah M. Hassan. "Fragments of Poetic Memory: The Art of Rashid Diab." Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1.1 (1994): 19-23. Project MUSE. Web. 26 Jan. 2013. . Hassan, S. M.(1994). Fragments of Poetic Memory: The Art of Rashid Diab. Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1(1), 19-23. Duke University Press. Retrieved January 26, 2013, from Project MUSE database. Salah M. Hassan. "Fragments of Poetic Memory: The Art of Rashid Diab." Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1, no. 1 (1994): 19-23. http://muse.jhu.edu/ (accessed January 26, 2013). TY - JOUR T1 - Fragments of Poetic Memory: The Art of Rashid Diab A1 - Salah M. Hassan JF - Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art VL - 1 IS - 1 SP - 19 EP - 23 PY - 1994 PB - Duke University Press SN - 2152-7792 UR - http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nka/v001/1.hassan.html N1 - Issue 1, Fall/Winter 1994 ER - ...
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