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Travel & See

Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s

By: Kobena Mercer

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Travel & See

Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s

By: Kobena Mercer

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.

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Duke University Press

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082237451X

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9780822374510

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Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s

By: Kobena Mercer

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Alain Locke and the Visual Arts

By: Kobena Mercer

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Alain Locke and the Visual Arts

By: Kobena Mercer

A fresh perspective on the influential critic, offering new ways of understanding the art of the Harlem Renaissance Alain Locke (1885-1954), leading theorist of the Harlem Renaissance, maintained a lifelong commitment to the visual arts. Offering an in-depth study of Locke's writings and art world interventions, Kobena Mercer focuses on the importance of cross-cultural entanglement. This distinctive approach reveals Locke's vision of modern art as a dynamic space where images and ideas generate new forms under the fluid conditions of diaspora. Positioning the philosopher as an advocate for an Afromodern aesthetic that drew from both formal experiments in Europe and the iconic legacy of the African past, Mercer shows how Aaron Douglas, Loïs Mailou Jones, and other New Negro artists acknowledged the diaspora's rupture with the ancestral past as a prelude to the rebirth of identity. In his 1940 picture book, The Negro in Art, Locke also explored the different ways black and white artists approached the black image. Mercer's reading highlights the global mobility of black images as they travel across national and ethnic frontiers. Finally, Mercer examines how Locke's investment in art was shaped by gay male aestheticism. Black male nudes, including works by Richmond Barthé and Carl Van Vechten, thus reveal the significance of queer practices in modernism's cross-cultural genesis Published in association with the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University

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Yale University Press

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0300247265

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9780300247268

Alain Locke and the Visual Arts

By: Kobena Mercer

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Yale University Press

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Frank Bowling

Mappa Mundi

By: Okwui Enwezor,Kobena Mercer,Anna Schneider (Art historian),Zoé Whitley,Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

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Frank Bowling

Mappa Mundi

By: Okwui Enwezor,Kobena Mercer,Anna Schneider (Art historian),Zoé Whitley,Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Featuring numerous works and rarely seen large-scale paintings from Frank Bowling's sweeping 60-year career, this book highlights the artist's magnificent use of sensuous color and rich texture in pictures that are at once absorbing and tactile. When they were first exhibited in the late 1960s, Frank Bowling's immense "map paintings" were widely celebrated for their vibrant color and subtle modulation of the painted surface. These works, like many in Bowling's oeuvre, draw on the principle of mapping to create a kind of mental geography, woven throughout with personal and historic imagery. This collection of paintings from throughout Bowling's career features exquisite reproductions that illuminate his experiments with material and the paintings' wide range of pictorial possibilities. Accompanied by an extensive curatorial survey, art historical contributions, prose poem, biographical visual essay, as well as the collected writings and correspondence of the artist, this book offers an in depth exploration of Bowling's career and aspects of his journey from his home in Guyana to London and New York. It also highlights references to the natural world and his use of classical and literary symbolism. This book creates a true mappa mundi--an evolving map of Bowling's inner and physical worlds.

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286

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3791367692

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9783791367699

Isaac Julien

With Essays

By: Kobena Mercer,Chris Darke

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Isaac Julien

With Essays

By: Kobena Mercer,Chris Darke

Britain's pre-eminent black filmmaker and Cannes prize-winner is the subject of this Minigraph that concentrates on the major themes that inform his work. These include issues surrounding race and sexuality.

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Anova Books

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1841660736

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Travel & See

Travel & See

Travel & See

Travel & See

Alain Locke and the Visual Arts

Alain Locke and the Visual Arts

Alain Locke and the Visual Arts

Alain Locke and the Visual Arts

Frank Bowling

Frank Bowling

Isaac Julien

Isaac Julien

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