Discrepant abstraction
By: edited by Kobena Mercer.
Contributors: Mercer, Kobena, 1960-
Series: Annotating art's histories
Publisher: Institute of International Visual Arts; MIT Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780262633376
Subjects: Art, Abstract; Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies
Description: "Discrepant Abstraction is hybrid and partial, elusive and repetitive, obstinate and strange; it includes almost everything that does not neatly fit into the institutional narrative of abstract art as a monolithic quest for artistic 'purity'. Exploring cross-cultural scenarios in 20th-century art, this collection alters our understanding of abstract art as a signifier of modernity by revealing the multiple directions it has taken in diverse international contexts. Discrepant Abstraction is the second volume in the Annotating Art's Histories series."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-226).
Table of contents: title: Abstract expressionism and third world art: a post-colonial approach to 'American' art / David Craven; title: To avoid the inscrutable: abstract expressionism and the 'Oriental mode' / Stanley K. Abe; title: Abstraction and modern Chinese art / David Clarke; title: Rethinking calligraphic modernism / Iftikhar Dadi; title: Abstraction as infection and cure / Mark A. Cheetham; title: Autobiography of an (ex)coloured surface: monochrome and liminality / Angeline Morrison; title: 'It's not enough to say "black is beautiful"': abstraction at the Whitney, 1969-1974 / Kellie Jones; title: Black Atlantic abstraction: Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling / Kobena Mercer; title: Quantum ghosts: an interview with Wilson Harris / Nathaniel Mackey.