Travel & See

Black Diaspora Art Practices Since the 1980s

Kobena Mercer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

384 Seiten

2016
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6080-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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.

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

Zusatzinfo	111 color illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 229 mm
Gewicht	1066 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8223-6080-2 / 0822360802
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-6080-3 / 9780822360803
Zustand	Neuware