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Travel & See
Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s
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Kobena Mercer
Languages:
English, Spanish
Published/Copyright:
2016
About this book
In this set of essays that cover the period from 1992 to 2012, Kobena Mercer uses a diasporic model of criticism to analyze the cross-cultural aesthetic practice of African American and black British artists and to show how their refiguring of visual representations of blackness transform perceptions of race.
Author / Editor information
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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"Travel & See benefits from a retrospective gaze; Mercer’s 30-year career gives him a judicious distance on some highly charged aesthetic movements and issues.... Mercer’s 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 historian’s 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 Mercer’s 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 art‐historical 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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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
1 - PART I. Art’s Critique of Representation
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1. The Fragile Inheritors
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2. Busy in the Ruins of Wretched Phantasia
50 - PART II. Differential Proliferations
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3. Marronage of the Wandering Eye: Keith Piper
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4. Mortal Coil: Eros and Diaspora in the Photographs of Rotimi Fani-Kayode
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5. Avid Iconographies: Isaac Julien
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6. Art That Is Ethnic in Inverted Commas: Yinka Shonibare
147 - PART III. Global Modernities
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7. Home from Home: Portraits from Places in Between
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8. African Photography in Contemporary Visual Culture
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9. Ethnicity and Internationality: New British Art and Diaspora-Based Blackness
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10. Documenta 11
207 - PART IV. Detours and Returns
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11. A Sociography of Diaspora
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12. Diaspora Aesthetics and Visual Culture
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13. Art History after Globalization: Formations of the Colonial Modern
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14. The Cross-Cultural and the Contemporary
262 - PART V. Journeying
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15. Postcolonial Trauerspiel: Black Audio Film Collective
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16. Archive and Dépaysement in the Art of Renée Green
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17. Kerry James Marshall: The Painter of Afro-Modern Life
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18. Hew Locke’s Postcolonial Baroque
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Bibliography
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
February 4, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9780822374510
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
384
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111 color illustrations
eBook ISBN:
9780822374510
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
