Discrepant Abstraction

Kobena Mercer

ISBN 10: 026263337X / ISBN 13: 9780262633376

Verlag: The MIT Press, 2006

Beschreibung

Annotating Art's Histories: Cross-Cultural Perspectives In The Visual Arts. How the formal ingenuity of abstract art has been cross-fertilized by creative discrepancies-a cross-cultural voyage stretching from Hong Kong and Islamic regions to Canada, Australia, Europe, and the United States. 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. Heavy; Large. Foxing to the top edge of pages. 224 pages.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Discrepant Abstraction
• Verlag: The MIT Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 026263337X
• ISBN-13: 9780262633376
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Very Good
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How the formal ingenuity of abstract art has been cross-fertilized by creative discrepancies―a cross-cultural voyage stretching from Hong Kong and Islamic regions to Canada, Australia, Europe, and the United States.

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 twentieth-century art, this second volume in the Annotating Art's Histories series alters our understanding of abstract art as a signifier of modernity by revealing the multiple directions it has taken in wide-ranging international contexts.Impure, imperfect, and incomplete, the version of abstraction that emerges from this global journey―from Hong Kong and Islamic regions to Canada, Australia, Europe, and the United States―shows how the formal ingenuity of abstract art has been cross-fertilized, from abstract expressionism onwards, by creative discrepancies that arise when disparate visual languages are brought into dialogue. Discrepant Abstraction is essential reading for students, practitioners and anyone curious about cross-cultural interaction in the visual arts. Copublished with inIVA/Institute of International Visual Arts, London

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.