Mercer Kobena Mercer

Travel & See (eBook, PDF)

Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s

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Produktbeschreibung

Over the years, Kobena Mercer has critically illuminated the visual innovations of African American and black British artists. In Travel & See he presents a diasporic model of criticism that gives close attention to aesthetic strategies while tracing the shifting political and cultural contexts in which black visual art circulates. In eighteen essays, which cover the period from 1992 to 2012 and discuss such leading artists as Isaac Julien, Renee Green, Kerry James Marshall, and Yinka Shonibare, Mercer provides nothing less than a counternarrative of global contemporary art that reveals how the "e;dialogical principle"e; of cross-cultural interaction not only has transformed commonplace perceptions of blackness today but challenges us to rethink the entangled history of modernism as well.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374510
• Artikelnr.: 54788518

Autorenporträt

Kobena Mercer is Professor of History of Art and African American Studies at Yale University. He is author of Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies, editor of Cosmopolitan Modernisms, among other titles, and an inaugural recipient of the 2006 Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction  1
Part I. Art's Critique of Representation  37
1. The Fragile Inheritors  39
2. Busy in the Ruins of Wretched Phantasia  50
Part II. Differential Proliferations  87
3. Marronage of the Wandering Eye: Keith Piper  89
4. Mortal Coil: Eros and Diaspora in the Photographs of Rotimi Fani-Kayode 
97
5. Avid Iconographies: Isaac Julien  129
6. Art That Is Ethnic is Inverted Commas: Yinka Shonibare  147
Part III. Global Modernities  155
7. Home from Home: Portraits from Places in Between  157
8. African Photography in Contemporary Visual Culture  170
9. Ethnicity and Internationality: New British Art and Diaspora-Based
Blackness  186
10. Documenta  11  207
Part IV. Detours and Returns  215
11. A Sociography of Diaspora  217
12. Diaspora Aesthetics and Visual Culture  227
13. Art History after Globalization: Formations of the Colonial Modern  248
14. The Cross-Cultural and the Contemporary  262
Part V. Journeying  277
15. Postcolonial Trauerspiel: Black Audio Film Collective  279
16. Archive and Dépaysement in the Art of Renée Green  294
17. Kerry James Marshall: The Painter of Afro-Modern Life  310
18. Hew Locke's Postcolonial Baroque  321
Bibliography  347
Index  357