'Migration throws objects, identities and ideas into flux across a global network of travelling cultures. Examining life-changing journeys that transplanted arists 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.
Revealing the traumatic conditions that shaped numerous variants of modernism - among indigenous artists in Australia and Canada as much as émigré art historians from Central Europe - these critical studies also highlight multidirectional patterns of cross-appropriation that trouble the settled boundaries of national belonging, whether manifested in 1920s Nigeria or in post-modern works by black British artists of the 1980s. Coming up to date with historical perspectives on conceptual art's engagement with alterity, Exile, Diasporas & Strangers makes a unique contribution to art history's rapprochement with the post-colonial turn.' (Back cover)
With list of illustrations, selected bibliography and contributors' biographies.
Annotating Art's Histories
Onsite
English
2008
224
9781899846450
1
anthology
Introduction - Kobena MERCER
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
Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers
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