Travel & See : Black Diaspora Art Practices Since the 1980's

Mercer, Kobena. Travel & See : Black Diaspora Art Practices Since the 1980's. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016.

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Abstract (English)

"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, Renée 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." -- Publisher's website.

Types:	Anthologies, essays, collections
All Contributors:	Mercer, Kobena (Author)
Dossier:	700 - ART ET LA DIASPORA NOIRE / ART AND THE BLACK DIASPORA
Collation:	368 p. : col. ill ; 23 cm
Language of Publication:	English
Publishers:	Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Artists:	Green, Renée; Julien, Isaac; Marshall, Kerry James; Simpson, Lorna; Shonibare, Yinka; Walker, Kara; Weems, Carrie Mae; [et alii]
Keywords:	BLACK DIASPORA; BLACK ARTISTS; MODERNISM; CRITICAL THEORY; GLOBALIZATION; COLONIALISM; BLACK IDENTITY
Copyright Statement:	Duke University Press
Notes:	Bibliography p. 347. Includes index.
Deposited by:	Collections
Date Deposited:	08 Jul 2016 17:29
Last Modified:	13 Apr 2019 19:00
URI:	http://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/27461

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