Exiles, diasporas & strangers
By: edited by Kobena Mercer.
Contributors: Mercer, Kobena, 1960-
Series: Annotating art's histories
Publisher: Iniva, Institute of International Visual Arts; MIT Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781899846450; 9780262633581
Subjects: Art and globalization; Culture and globalization; Modernism (Art) -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Other titles: Exiles, diasporas and strangers
Description: "Examining life-changing journeys that transplanted artists and intellectuals from one cultural context to another, Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers offers a thematic overview of the critical and creative role of estrangement and displacement in the story of 20th-century art." "Revealing the traumatic conditions that shaped numerous variants of modernism - among indigenous artists in Australia and Canada as much as emigre art historians from Central Europe - these critical studies also highlight multidirectional patterns of cross-appropriation that trouble the settled boundaries of national belonging, whether manifested in 1920s Nigeria or in post-modern works by black British artists in the 1980s. Coming up to date with historical perspectives on conceptual art's engagement with alterity, Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers makes a unique contribution to art history's rapprochement with the post-colonial turn."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-218).
Table of contents: title: Unmapped trajectories: early sculpture and architecture of a 'Nigerian' modernity / Ikem Stanley Okoye; title: The turn of the primitive: modernism, the stranger and the indigenous artist / Ruth B. Phillips; title: Aboriginal modernism in central Australia / Ian McLean; title: The artifice of modern(ist) art history / Steven Mansbach; title: Diaspora aesthetics: exploring the African diaspora in the works of Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence and Jean-Michel Basquiat / Sieglinde Lemke; title: Adrian Piper, 1970-1975: exiled on main street / Kobena Mercer; title: Conceptualising 'Black' British art through the lens of exile / Amna Malik; title: Diaspora, trauma and the poetics of remembrance / Jean Fisher.