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Exiles, diasporas & strangers / Kobena Mercer.

Author/creator Mercer, Kobena, 1960-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : MIT Press ; London ; Iniva, Institute of International Visual Arts, ©2008.
Description224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 216-218).
LCCN 2007031409
ISBN9780262633581 (MIT Press : pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0262633582 (MIT Press : pbk. : alk. paper)

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