Exiles, diasporas & strangers / Kobena Mercer.
| Author/creator | Mercer, Kobena, 1960- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press ; London ; Iniva, Institute of International Visual Arts, ©2008. |
| Description | 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Exiles, diasporas and strangers |
| Series | Annotating art's histories Annotating art's histories. ^A605954 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-218). |
| LCCN | 2007031409 |
| ISBN | 9780262633581 (MIT Press : pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0262633582 (MIT Press : pbk. : alk. paper) |