TRAVEL & SEE by Kobena Mercer ( 9780822360940 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

TRAVEL & SEE
BLACK DIASPORA ART PRACTICES SINCE THE 1980S

By:

Kobena Mercer

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0822360942

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9780822360940

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Publisher:

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

29 April, 2016

Pages:

384

Language:

English, Spanish

Description:

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.

Synopsis:

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 "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.

Illustrations:

111 color illustrations

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Duke University Press

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Returnable

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