Discrepant Abstraction. Edited by Kobena Mercer (Annotating Art's Histories)

Stanley K. Abe

ISBN 10: 1899846433 / ISBN 13: 9781899846436

Published by MIT, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Discrepant Abstraction. Edited by Kobena Mercer (Annotating Art's Histories)
• Publisher: MIT
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1899846433
• ISBN 13: 9781899846436
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Kobena Mercer has long been an important figure in the world of cultural theory and identity politics. He has more recently turned his attention to the fine art object itself. In this groundbreaking book Mercer and a range of other art historians and scholars examine the place of the black artist in the fine art arena. Contrary to art history artists of the African diaspora have played an ongoing and important role in advancing the high art paradigm of painting. Abstraction does not only mean Jackson Pollock! Here Mercer and his critical cohorts examine the role that black artists have played and continue to play in making painting and abstraction an engaging and meaningful conceptual practice.

About the Author

Kobena Mercer is a writer and critic living in London. He is the editor of Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures, Cosmopolitan Modernisms, and Discrepant Abstraction (all published by The MIT Press and inIVA), author of Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies, and an inaugural recipient of the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing, presented by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.