Travel & See (inbunden)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
384
Utgivningsdatum
2016-04-29
Förlag
Duke University Press
Illustratör/Fotograf
111 color illustrations
Illustrationer
111 color illustrations
Dimensioner
229 x 178 x 20 mm
Vikt
840 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
,
ISBN
9780822360940

Travel & See

Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s

Häftad,  Engelska, 2016-04-29
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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, Rene Green, Kerry James Marshall, and Yinka Shonibare, Mercer provides nothing less than a counternarrative of global contemporary art that reveals how the dialogical principle 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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"Travel & See benefits from a retrospective gaze; Mercers 30-year career gives him a judicious distance on some highly charged aesthetic movements and issues.... Mercers volume ... does not simply collect his past writings; it forces us to see international modernism in a way that has implications for future scholarship both within and beyond the field of black diasporic art. Travel & See posits Mercer as a chronicler not only of the field of contemporary art of the Afro-modern world, but of the inextricable ties of black diasporic and modernism itself." -- Sarah Lewis * Art in America * "Travel & See is an essential addition to any art historians library.... With Travel & See, Mercer further establishes himself as a leading figure in the field while also modeling the type of work that still needs to be done. The volume shows how Mercers writing redefined contemporary art history just as much as it shows how black diaspora artists changed contemporary art." -- Uchenna Itam * Shift * "Mercer's optimistic spirit encourages the reader to dare to travel in space and time in order to see better." -- Maureen Murphy * Critique d'art * "Subtleties of thought and elegance of expression are characteristic of Mercer's writings, read avidly by those art historians who have sought insight into Black British Cultural Studies, increasingly influential over the last thirty years. Mercer's essays offer a welcome contrast to arthistorical scholarship aimed at the specialist, and also to criticism on the contemporary arts of the African and Asian diasporas." -- Amna Malik * Art History *

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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.

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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 Dpaysement in the Art of Rene Green 294 17. Kerry James Marshall: The Painter of Afro-Modern Life 310 18. Hew Locke's Postcolonial Baroque 321 Bibliography 347 Index 357