{"product_id":"travel-see-9780822360940","title":"Travel  See","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this set of essays that cover the period from 1992 to 2012, Kobena Mercer uses a diasporic model of criticism to analyze the cross-cultural aesthetic practice of African American and black British artists and to show how their refiguring of visual representations of blackness transform perceptions of race. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTravel \u0026amp; See\u003c\/i\u003e benefits from a retrospective gaze; Mercer’s 30-year career gives him a judicious distance on some highly charged aesthetic movements and issues.... Mercer’s volume ... does not simply collect his past writings; it forces us to see international modernism in a way that has implications for future scholarship both within and beyond the field of black diasporic art. \u003ci\u003eTravel \u0026amp; See \u003c\/i\u003eposits Mercer as a chronicler not only of the field of contemporary art of the Afro-modern world, but of the inextricable ties of black diasporic and modernism itself.\" -- Sarah Lewis * Art in America *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTravel \u0026amp; See\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential addition to any art historian’s library.... With \u003ci\u003eTravel \u0026amp; See\u003c\/i\u003e, Mercer further establishes himself as a leading figure in the field while also modeling the type of work that still needs to be done. The volume shows how Mercer’s writing redefined contemporary art history just as much as it shows how black diaspora artists changed contemporary art.\" -- Uchenna Itam * Shift *\u003cbr\u003e\"Mercer's optimistic spirit encourages the reader to dare to travel in space and time in order to see better.\" -- Maureen Murphy * Critique d'art *\u003cbr\u003e\"Subtleties of thought and elegance of expression are characteristic of Mercer's writings, read avidly by those art historians who have sought insight into Black British Cultural Studies, increasingly influential over the last thirty years. Mercer's essays offer a welcome contrast to art‐historical scholarship aimed at the specialist, and also to criticism on the contemporary arts of the African and Asian diasporas.\" -- Amna Malik * Art History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xiii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Art's Critique of Representation  37\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Fragile Inheritors  39\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Busy in the Ruins of Wretched Phantasia  50\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Differential Proliferations  87\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. \u003ci\u003eMarronage\u003c\/i\u003e of the Wandering Eye: Keith Piper  89\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Mortal Coil: Eros and Diaspora in the Photographs of Rotimi Fani-Kayode  97\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Avid Iconographies: Isaac Julien  129\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Art That Is Ethnic is Inverted Commas: Yinka Shonibare  147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Global Modernities  155\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Home from Home: Portraits from Places in Between  157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. African Photography in Contemporary Visual Culture  170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. Ethnicity and Internationality: New British Art and Diaspora-Based Blackness  186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10. Documenta  11  207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Detours and Returns  215\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11. A Sociography of Diaspora  217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12. Diaspora Aesthetics and Visual Culture  227\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 13. Art History after Globalization: Formations of the Colonial Modern  248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Cross-Cultural and the Contemporary  262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Journeying  277\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 15. Postcolonial \u003ci\u003eTrauerspiel\u003c\/i\u003e: Black Audio Film Collective  279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 16. Archive and \u003ci\u003eDépaysement\u003c\/i\u003e in the Art of Renée Green  294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 17. Kerry James Marshall: The Painter of Afro-Modern Life  310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 18. Hew Locke's Postcolonial Baroque  321\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  347\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  357","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083685241175,"sku":"9780822360940","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822360940.jpg?v=1725549714","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/travel-see-9780822360940","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}