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Exiles, diasporas & strangers / edited by Kobena Mercer.

Contributor(s): Series: Annotating art's historiesPublisher: London ; Iniva, Institute of International Visual Arts ; Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 224 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262633582
  • 9780262633581
  • 9781899846450
Subject(s):
Contents:
Unmapped trajectories: early sculpture and architecture of a 'Nigerian' modernity / Ikem Stanley Okoye
The turn of the primitive: modernism, the stranger and the indigenous artist / Ruth B. Phillips
Aboriginal modernism in central Australia / Ian McLean
The artifice of modern(ist) art history / Steven Mansbach
Diaspora aesthetics: exploring the African diaspora in the works of Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence and Jean-Michel Basquiat / Sieglinde Lemke
Adrian Piper, 1970-1975: exiled on main street / Kobena Mercer
Conceptualising 'Black' British art through the lens of exile / Amna Malik
Diaspora, trauma and the poetics of remembrance / Jean Fisher
Summary: This study examines some of the life-changing journeys that transplanted artists and intellectuals from one culture to another, making clear the critical and creative role that migration, exile and displacement have played in shaping the story of modern art.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Yellow 709.04 MER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 08529

Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-218).

Unmapped trajectories: early sculpture and architecture of a 'Nigerian' modernity / Ikem Stanley Okoye

The turn of the primitive: modernism, the stranger and the indigenous artist / Ruth B. Phillips

Aboriginal modernism in central Australia / Ian McLean

The artifice of modern(ist) art history / Steven Mansbach

Diaspora aesthetics: exploring the African diaspora in the works of Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence and Jean-Michel Basquiat / Sieglinde Lemke

Adrian Piper, 1970-1975: exiled on main street / Kobena Mercer

Conceptualising 'Black' British art through the lens of exile / Amna Malik

Diaspora, trauma and the poetics of remembrance / Jean Fisher

This study examines some of the life-changing journeys that transplanted artists and intellectuals from one culture to another, making clear the critical and creative role that migration, exile and displacement have played in shaping the story of modern art.