Travel & See

Mercer Kobena Mercer

Description

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.  

Sujets

• USA
• África
• History of Africa
• États-Unis
• Africa

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 04 février 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822374510
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 13 Mo

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Kobena Mercer

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Lïbrary ôf Côngress Caaôgïng-ïn-Pubïcaôn Daa Mercer, Kôbena, [dae] auhôr. Trave & see : Bac dïaspôra ar pracces sïnce he 1980s / Kôbena Mercer. pages cm Incudes bïbïôgraphïca references and ïndex. ISBN 978-0-8223-6080-3 (hardcôver : a. paper) ISBN 978-0-8223-6094-0 (pb. : a. paper) ISBN 978-0-8223-7451-0 (e-bôô) 1. Ar, Bac—Hïsôry and crïcïsm. 2. Race ïn ar. 3. Ehnïcïy ïn ar. 4. Afrïcan dïaspôra ïn ar. 5. Ar and gôbaïzaôn. I . Tïe. N 8232. M 48 2016 704.03′96—dc23 2015029323

Frônspïece: Prôverb ïnscrïbed ôn bôa, Kôrôbïe, Ghana, 1991. Côver ar: Isaac Juïen,Wesern Unïôn Serïes Nô. 1 (Cas Nô Shadôw), 2007. Durarans ïn ïghbôx, 47.24 × 47.24 ïnches (120 × 120 cm). Côuresy ôf he ars.

Thïs bôô was pubïshed wïh he assïsance ôf The Frederïc W. Hïes Pubïcaôn Fund ôf Yae Unïversïy. Pubïcaôn has asô been made pôssïbe by he generôus suppôr ôf he Deparmen ôf he Hïsôry ôf Ar Pubïcaôns Fund, Yae Unïversïy.

Dedïcaed ô he memôry ôf my faher, Kraue Kweu Mercer, 1925–1998

Lïst ôf Illustraôns Acknôwledgments Intrôducôn

Part I

Part II

Part III

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Contents

ART’ S CRI TI QUE OF REPRESENTATI ON 1 àé ïéôŝ é 2  é Rûŝ Bûŝ ôF Wéçé Pààŝà

DI FFERENTI AL PROLI FERATI ONS 3 Màônàéô é Wàé Eé: é Pé 4  Môà Cô: Eôŝ à Dàŝôà  é Pôôàŝ ôF Rô à-àôé 5 ïçôôàéŝ: ïŝààç Jûé A 6 à ïŝ Eç  ïéé A Côàŝ: Yà Sôàé

155  GLOBAL MODERNI TI ES 157 7 ô ôé: Pôàŝ ôé ô Pàçéŝ  Bééé 170 8 Pôôà  Côéôà Açà Vŝûà Cûûé 186 9  Eç à ïéàôà: Né Bŝ A à Dàŝôà-Bàŝé Bàçéŝŝ 207 10  Dôçûéà

Part IV

Part V

Bïblïôgraphy Index

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DETOURS AND RETURNS 11 Sôçôà ôF Dàŝôà A 12 Aéŝéçŝ Dàŝôà à Vŝûà Cûûé 13 ŝô àté Gôàzàô: A ôàôŝ ô é Côôà Môé  é Côŝŝ-Cûûà à 14 é Côéôà

JOURNEYI NG 15  PôŝçôôàTàûéŝé: Bàç Aûô  Côéçé  Açé àDÉàyŝéén 16  é A ôF RéÈé Géé 17  é Jàéŝ Màŝà: é Pàé ô Aô-Môé é 18 ôçé’ŝ Pôŝçôôà Bàôqûé é

I .1 I .2 I .3 I .4 I .5 I .6

I .7 I .8 I .9

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2.1 2.2

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Illustrations

Zàà B,Uné,   ôà Sŝô,Vànàé Pôn,   Màà Mààéà Càôŝ-Pôŝ,Eévàà,   Cŝ Oî,Aôzzà( éŝô),   Eé Gààé,Déûxé(éà), – àà Wàé,Té En ô Uncé Tô àn é Gàn Aéôcà Tàbéàû ô Evà n Héàvén,  (ŝààô é) Mçàé Rà Càéŝ,Héà Yô Fééû,  Dôà Rôé,ïn é Hôûŝé ô My Fàé,  Cŝôé Côzé,Té Càŝàwày (ô éTôcà Nŝééŝ), –éŝé é Wŝô,Fény Nàvéŝ(éà),  RéÈé Géé,Càŝé ïï. Lôŝ,  (ŝààô é)  RéÈé Géé,Càŝé ïV. Fôûn,  (ŝààô é)  é Wŝô,Côônà Côécôn, éà ôTé Oé Mûŝéû,  é Pé,Té Bôy Pôc,   Mà àzà,Lôŝ Fôné (ôTé Bûéŝŝééŝ,  A Gô), –  Sôà Bôçé,Fô Sôéôné Eŝé’ŝ Féà/ Fànàŝy ô Méàôôŝŝ,   Càé Màé Wééŝ,Mô, Mô (ô éAn’ Jôkn’ ŝééŝ), –  Aà Pé,Té Myc Bén: ï Ebôy Evéyn Yôû Môŝ Hàé àn Féà, 