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OverviewOver 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kobena MercerPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 1.066kg ISBN: 9780822360803ISBN 10: 0822360802 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 29 April 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList 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 357ReviewsA marvelous work, Kobena Mercer's Travel & See has the potential to introduce a whole new audience to the work of several artists of the African Diaspora, while at the same time shifting our understanding of their artistic practice by radically reframing how we understand the very concept of diaspora and diasporic art. Mercer's persistent challenge to an equation of the diasporic histories of these artists with any semblance of identity or identity politics is a soaring accomplishment. --Tina M. Campt, author of Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe Kobena Mercer's work here is no less than a discourse on the transformation from multiculturalism to globalization. Beautifully marrying theoretical framings through psychoanalysis, sociology, and cultural studies with close readings of specific artists and objects, Mercer offers amazing materialist definitions of diaspora that readers will be mining for years to come. A phenomenal book, Travel & See will be incredibly useful to seasoned and new scholars alike. -- Kellie Jones, author of EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art In Travel & See, his second eagerly awaited collection of writings, Kobena Mercer offers a probing and multifaceted exploration of how the dialogics of black diaspora art at once instance and reframe the deep structures of modern and contemporary culture. Featuring thematic accounts as well as essays on individual artists and exhibitions from across the globe, this volume represents a vital contribution to aesthetic discourse from a compelling writer whose journeys and reflections over the last two decades have become models of critical engagement. -- Huey Copeland, author of Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America In Travel & See Kobena Mercer breaks open some of our most trenchant binaries-politics and art, primitive and modern, Europe and America-by showing us that the black diaspora, with its crisscrossings of the Atlantic and its dense network of affiliations, movements, and practices, is predicated on the polyphony of difference, rather than structural oppositions. Released from this 'either-or' thinking, Mercer has written a trenchant yet delicate account of how artists of the black diaspora have demonstrably shaped the art of our time, bestowing it with a layered and rich meditation on some of the most pressing questions we ask of ourselves: who are we, and, perhaps, more importantly, who would we like to be? -- Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art A marvelous work, Kobena Mercer's Travel & See has the potential to introduce a whole new audience to the work of several artists of the black diaspora, while at the same time shifting our understanding of their artistic practice by radically reframing how we understand the very concept of diaspora and diasporic art. Mercer's persistent challenge to an equation of the diasporic histories of these artists with any semblance of identity or identity politics is a soaring accomplishment. -- Tina M. Campt, author of Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe 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 * 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 * 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 * 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 * Kobena Mercer's work here is no less than a discourse on the transformation from multiculturalism to globalization. Beautifully marrying theoretical framings through psychoanalysis, sociology, and cultural studies with close readings of specific artists and objects, Mercer offers amazing materialist definitions of diaspora that readers will be mining for years to come. A phenomenal book, Travel & See will be incredibly useful to seasoned and new scholars alike. -- Kellie Jones, author of EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art In Travel & See, his second eagerly awaited collection of writings, Kobena Mercer offers a probing and multifaceted exploration of how the dialogics of black diaspora art at once instance and reframe the deep structures of modern and contemporary culture. Featuring thematic accounts as well as essays on individual artists and exhibitions from across the globe, this volume represents a vital contribution to aesthetic discourse from a compelling writer whose journeys and reflections over the last two decades have become models of critical engagement. -- Huey Copeland, author of Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America In Travel & See Kobena Mercer breaks open some of our most trenchant binaries-politics and art, primitive and modern, Europe and America-by showing us that the black diaspora, with its crisscrossings of the Atlantic and its dense network of affiliations, movements, and practices, is predicated on the polyphony of difference, rather than structural oppositions. Released from this 'either-or' thinking, Mercer has written a trenchant yet delicate account of how artists of the black diaspora have demonstrably shaped the art of our time, bestowing it with a layered and rich meditation on some of the most pressing questions we ask of ourselves: who are we, and, perhaps, more importantly, who would we like to be? -- Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art A marvelous work, Kobena Mercer's Travel & See has the potential to introduce a whole new audience to the work of several artists of the black diaspora, while at the same time shifting our understanding of their artistic practice by radically reframing how we understand the very concept of diaspora and diasporic art. Mercer's persistent challenge to an equation of the diasporic histories of these artists with any semblance of identity or identity politics is a soaring accomplishment. -- Tina M. Campt, author of Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe 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 Author InformationKobena 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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