Keith Anthony Morrison

Keith Anthony Morrison's painting "A Night in Tunisia" is featured on the cover of French scholar Marc Mve Bekale's book "Senghorian Meditations: The Ontology of Afro-Diasporic Aesthetics" published in Paris by L'Harmattan Publishing. The author says "A Night in Tunisia" elucidates his concept for the book: "It builds on the theory worked out by the late Leopold Senghor (great poet and president of Senegal) to explain the meaning and the various expressions of African-Negro aesthetics and that of the 'black Atlantic.' The book covers traditional African music (starting with the 'pygmies' polyphony and percussive techniques), the migration and dissemination of African sensibilities in the Americas, the mutation of African sensibilities into various musical forms in contact with other cultures across the Americas, the relationship between the homiletic oratory of old times black preachers with the oratorical tradition of African griots, the vitalistic dimension of African and black diasporic music which mainly comes from the predominance of percussions and gives it an absolute kinetic quality (so much so that Zora Neal Hurston was to assert that "there is no black music without movement"), the influence of African traditional sculpture on modern and postmodern painting and sculpture."

Méditations senghoriennes Méditations senghoriennes : Cette étude fait découvrir la pensée esthétique de Senghor, pour en dégager les principaux paradigmes et montrer leurs ramifications à travers les Amériques, où ils ont favorisé la naissance d'un "monde créolisé", fait d'ancestralités complexes, de "généalogies kafkaïenne…

ARC Magazine features Keith Anthony Morrison's 2004 watercolor Market III (Mercado III) in its report on the exhibition “FLOW: Economies of the Look and Creativity in Contemporary Art from the Caribbean.”

IDB presents FLOW: Economies of the Look and Creativity in Contemporary Art from the Caribbean The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) presents the exhibition "FLOW: Economies of the Look and Creativity in Contemporary Art from the Caribbean." This exhibit will be open to the public from June 9 to August 29, 2014 at the IDB Cultural Center Art Gallery in Washington, DC.