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Annotating Art's Histories : exiles, diasporas & strangers Kobena Mercer

Material type: TextTextSeries: Annotating Art’s Histories series Featuring internationally renowned scholars and curators at the critical edge of current research in art history, visual culture, and the humanities, Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures is the third volume in the Annotating Art’s Histories series ; Vol 3Publication details: London Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) 2008Description: 232p 24x18cmISBN:
  • 9781899846450
DDC classification:
  • 709 dc22
LOC classification:
  • N72.G55M47 2008
Summary: Migration throws objects, identities and ideas into flux across a global network of travelling cultures. 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. Texts by: Jean Fisher, Sieglinde Lemke, Amna Malik, Steven A. Mansbach, Ian McLean, Kobena Mercer, Ikem Stanley Okoye, Ruth B. Phillips Artists include: Black Audio Film Collective, Sonia Boyce, Aaron Douglas, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mona Hatoum, Gavin Jantjes, Oscar Jacobson, Emily Kngwarrey, Jacob Lawrence, Stephen Mopope, Norval Morrisseau, Albert Namatjira, Everlyn Nicodemus, James Onwudinjo, Adrian Piper, Keith Piper, George Swinton, Mitra Tabrizian, John Tiktak
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Migration throws objects, identities and ideas into flux across a global network of travelling cultures. 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. Texts by: Jean Fisher, Sieglinde Lemke, Amna Malik, Steven A. Mansbach, Ian McLean, Kobena Mercer, Ikem Stanley Okoye, Ruth B. Phillips Artists include: Black Audio Film Collective, Sonia Boyce, Aaron Douglas, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mona Hatoum, Gavin Jantjes, Oscar Jacobson, Emily Kngwarrey, Jacob Lawrence, Stephen Mopope, Norval Morrisseau, Albert Namatjira, Everlyn Nicodemus, James Onwudinjo, Adrian Piper, Keith Piper, George Swinton, Mitra Tabrizian, John Tiktak

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