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Books by Kobena Mercer
  | | Travel & See(41st Edition) Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s (English and Spanish Edition) by Kobena Mercer Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2016 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6094-0, ISBN: 0-8223-6094-2 "Over the years, Kobena Mercer has critically illuminated the visual innovations of African American and black British artists. In Travel & See he presents a diasporic model of criticism that gives close attention to aesthetic strategies while tracing the shifting political and cultural contexts in which black visual art circulates. In eighteen essays, which cover the period from 1992 to 2012 and discuss such leading artists as Isaac Jul ..." |
 | | The Fateful Triangle Race, Ethnicity, Nation (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures) by Stuart Hall, Kobena Mercer, Henry Louis Gates Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2017 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-97652-8, ISBN: 0-674-97652-5 "In The Fateful Triangle―drawn from lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1994―one of the founding figures of cultural studies reflects on the divisive, often deadly consequences of our contemporary politics of identification. As he untangles the power relations that permeate categories of race, ethnicity, and nationhood, Stuart Hall shows how old hierarchies of human identity in Western culture were forcefully broken apart when op ..." |
 | | Hew Locke Stranger in Paradise by Jens Hoffmann, Kobena Mercer, Hew Locke, Indra Khanna, L. Hewe Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2011 by Black Dog Publishing Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-907317-38-5, ISBN: 1-907317-38-4 ""Hew Locke: Stranger in Paradise" is a detailed monograph into the fascinating and multi-layered work of artist Hew Locke. Hew Locke uses a wide range of media, including painting, drawing, photography and sculpture and extensively using found objects and collage, Locke's work addresses recurring themes of visual expressions of power, trophies, globalization, movement of people and the creation of cultures. His sculptural work ranges fr ..." |
 | | Welcome to the Jungle(1st Edition) New Positions in Black Cultural Studies by Kobena Mercer Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1994 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-90635-7, ISBN: 0-415-90635-0 "Welcome to the Jungle brings a black British perspective to the critical reading of a wide range of cultural texts, events and experiences arising from volatile transformations in the politics of ethnicity, sexuality and race' during the 1980s. The ten essays collected here examine new forms of cultural expression in black film, photography and visual art exerging with a new generation of black British artists, and interprets this proli ..." |
 | | James Vanderzee 55 (Phaidon) by Kobena Mercer, James Vanderzee Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2003 by Phaidon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7148-4169-4, ISBN: 0-7148-4169-2 "Cada volumen de 128 páginas se centra en el trabajo de la vida de un maestro individual y contiene una introducción informativa y 55 trabajos clave acompañado por textos explicativos. Como parte del programa en curso, cada título de la colección 55 ofrece una historia de la vida moderna. James VanDerZee (1886-1983) fue el supremo retratista de estudio de la vida afroestadounidense en Harlem durante los años 1920 y 1930. Su interpretació ..." |
 | | Cosmopolitan Modernisms (Annotating Art's Histories) by Kobena Mercer Hrsg, Kobena Mercer Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2005 by Institute Of International Visual Arts (Iniva) ISBN-13: 978-1-899846-41-2, ISBN: 1-899846-41-7 "This first book in the Annotating Art's Histories series revisits the period in which modernist attitudes took shape, examining the ways in which a shared history of art and ideas was experienced in different nations and cultures. Original essays by leading art historians and curators trace the dynamic interplay of cultures across the story of modern art, looking at moments of crisis and innovation in modernism's cross-cultural past. An ..." |
 | | Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures(1st Edition) (Annotating Art's Histories: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in the Visual Arts) by Kobena Mercer, Sonia Salzstein, Geeta Kapur, Gavin Butt, Colin Richards, Holly Barnet-Sánchez, Martina Köppel-Yang, Richard A. Etlin, The Mit Press Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2007 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-63350-5, ISBN: 0-262-63350-7 "How does pop art translate across cultures? What does pop art look like through a postcolonial lens? In the global marketplace of images, artists have long challenged the discourse of officialdom by turning to dissident elements in the languages of vernacular culture. This volume casts new light on the aesthetics and politics of pop by taking a cross-cultural perspective on ..." |
 | | Adrian Piper A Reader by Diarmuid Costello, Kobena Mercer, Vid Simoniti, Elvan Zabunyan, Jörg Heiser, Nizan Shaked, Adrian Piper, David Platzker, Cornelia Butler, Connie Butler Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2018 by The Museum Of Modern Art, New York ISBN-13: 978-1-63345-033-2, ISBN: 1-63345-033-3 "Published in conjunction with MoMA’s retrospective exhibition and in collaboration with the artist, this scholarly volume presents new critical essays that expand on Piper's practice in ways that have been previously under- or unaddressed. Focused texts by established and emerging scholars assess themes in Piper’s work such as the Kantian framework that draws on her extensive philosophical studies; her unique contribution to first-gener ..." |
 | | Discrepant Abstraction(1st Edition) (Annotating Art's Histories: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in the Visual Arts) by Kobena Mercer, David Clarke, Iftikhar Dadi, Angeline Morrison, Kellie Jones, David Craven, Nathaniel Mackey, Stanley K. Abe, Mark A. Cheetham, Richard A. Etlin Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2006 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-63337-6, ISBN: 0-262-63337-X "For anyone who thinks the question of abstract art is settled, this book will come as a surprise. 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 ..." |
 | | Frank Bowling's Americas New York, 1966-75 (Hardback) by Akili Tommasino, Debra Lennard, Frank Bowling, Reto Thüring, Firelei Báez, Melvin Edwards, Julie Mehretu, Kobena Mercer, Sarah Roberts Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2022 by Mfa Publications, Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston ISBN-13: 978-0-87846-887-4, ISBN: 0-87846-887-0 "This volume surveys for the first time the transformative years that Bowling spent in the US from 1966 through 1975, a chapter of extraordinary productivity and artistic growth that would greatly shape his thinking and practice." |
 | | Isaac Julien by Kobena Mercer, Chris Darke, Isaac Julien Paperback, 84 Pages, Published 2002 by Ellipsis London Pr Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-84166-073-8, ISBN: 1-84166-073-6 "Issues of race and masculinity are the themes that inform the the work of this prolific filmmaker, favourite to win the 2001 Turner Priz The work of Isaac Julien, Britain's pre-eminent black filmmaker and Cannes prize-winner, breaks down the barriers that exist between artistic disciplines, drawing from film, dance, photography, music, theatre, painting and sculpture. Published to coincide with this year's Turner Prize exhibition for wh ..." |
 | | Marcel Odenbach by Marcel Odenbach, Dan Cameron, Kobena Mercer, Teodora Vischer, N.Y. Paperback, 56 Pages, Published 1998 by New Museum Of Contemporary Art ISBN-13: 978-0-915557-82-0, ISBN: 0-915557-82-7 "Contributions include: Power Play: Marcel Odenbach's Layered Histories by Dan Cameron, It Turned by Head by Theodora Vischer and Knowing Me, Knowing You: Video Art as a Practice of Hybridization by Kobena Mercer. Forword by Marcia Tucker." |
 | | Travel & See Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s (English and Spanish Edition) by Kobena Mercer Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2016 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6080-3, ISBN: 0-8223-6080-2 "Over the years, Kobena Mercer has critically illuminated the visual innovations of African American and black British artists. In Travel & See he presents a diasporic model of criticism that gives close attention to aesthetic strategies while tracing the shifting political and cultural contexts in which black visual art circulates. In eighteen essays, which cover the period from 1992 to 2012 and discuss such leading artists as Isaac Jul ..." |
 | | Romare Bearden in the Modernist Tradition by Kobena Mercer, Pamela Ford, Romare Bearden, Robert O'meally, Amy M. Mooney, Grace C. Stanislaus Paperback, 134 Pages, Published 2010 by Romare Bearden Foundation ISBN-13: 978-0-615-20291-4, ISBN: 0-615-20291-8 "Known for his rich, complex collage works that depict large-scale themes via African-American subjects, Romare Bearden (1911-1988) drew inspiration from myriad cultural influences--from historical and modern art to music and literature. According to The New York Times' Michael Kimmelman, "His genius, aside from his poetic knack for piecing scraps of photographs and other tiny tidbits together, was to see collage as an inherent social me ..." |
 | | Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures(1st Edition) by Kobena Mercer Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2007 by Institute Of International Visual Arts (Iniva) Import ISBN-13: 978-1-899846-44-3, ISBN: 1-899846-44-1 "How does pop art translate across cultures? What does pop art look like through a postcolonial lens? In the global marketplace of images, artists have long challenged the discourse of officialdom by turning to dissident elements in the languages of vernacular culture. This volume casts new light on the aesthetics and politics of pop by taking a cross-cultural perspective on what happens when everyday objects are taken out of one context ..." |
 | | Exiles, Diasporas and Strangers(1st Edition) (Annotating Art's Histories: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in the Visual Arts) by Kobena Mercer Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2008 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-63358-1, ISBN: 0-262-63358-2 "Migration, whether freely chosen or forcibly imposed, has been a defining feature of twentieth-century modernity--and much of twentieth-century art. Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers examines life-changing journeys that transplanted artists and intellectuals from one cultural context to another, making clear the critical and creative role that migration, exile, and displacement ..." |
 | | Isaac Julien(1st Edition) Riot by Giuliana Bruno, Isaac Julien, Professor Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall, Bell Hooks, Mark Nash, Kobena Mercer, Laura Mulvey, Glenn D. Lowry, Cynthia Rose, B. Ruby Rich, Christine Van Assche Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2014 by The Museum Of Modern Art, New York ISBN-13: 978-0-87070-887-9, ISBN: 0-87070-887-2 ""Riot" is an intellectual biography of artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien (born 1960), looking at key moments in his career and discussing the influences that shaped them. Julien's trail-blazing career has moved across film and art, documentary, biography, narrative film and multi-screen installation, and has drawn on influences as disparate as silent cinema, cultural studies, Chinese myth and pirate radio culture. "Riot" is the first ca ..." |
 | | Mirage Enigmas of Race, Difference and Desire by Kobena Mercer, David A. Bailey, Catherine Ugwu, Ragnar Farr, Frantz Fanon Paperback, 111 Pages, Published 1996 by Ica Editions ISBN-13: 978-0-905263-84-7, ISBN: 0-905263-84-7 "Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference & Desire." |
 | | Welcome to the Jungle(1st Edition) New Positions in Black Cultural Studies by Kobena Mercer Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 1994 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-90634-0, ISBN: 0-415-90634-2 "Welcome to the Jungle brings a black British perspective to the critical reading of a wide range of cultural texts, events and experiences arising from volatile transformations in the politics of ethnicity, sexuality and "race" during the 1980s. The ten essays collected here examine new forms of cultural expression in black film, photography and visual art exerging with a new gene ..." |
 | | Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers (Annotating Art's Histories) by Kobena Mercer Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2007 by Turner A&R Press ISBN-13: 978-1-899846-45-0, ISBN: 1-899846-45-X "Migration, whether freely chosen or forcibly imposed, has been a defining feature of twentieth-century modernity--and much of twentieth-century art. Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers examines life-changing journeys that transplanted artists and intellectuals from one cultural context to another, making clear the critical and creative role that migration, exile, and displacement have played in shaping the story of modern art. Whether manifes ..." |
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