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Discrepant abstraction / edited by Kobena Mercer.

Contributor(s): Series: Annotating art's historiesPublication details: London : Institute of International Visual Arts ; Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, c2006.Description: 232 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781899846436
  • 1899846433
  • 9780262633376
  • 026263337X
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Contents:
Abstract expressionism and third world art: a post-colonial approach to 'American' art / David Craven -- To avoid the inscrutable: abstract expressionism and the 'Oriental mode' / Stanley K. Abe -- Abstraction and modern Chinese art / David Clarke -- Rethinking calligraphic modernism / Iftikhar Dadi -- Abstraction as infection and cure / Mark A. Cheetham -- Autobiography of an (ex)coloured surface: monochrome and liminality / Angeline Morrison -- 'It's not enough to say "black is beautiful"': abstraction at the Whitney, 1969-1974 / Kellie Jones -- Black Atlantic abstraction: Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling / Kobena Mercer Quantum ghosts: an interview with Wilson Harris / Nathaniel Mackey
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Barcode
Book Book CGLAS Library Yellow 709.04052 MER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 08523

Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-226).

Abstract expressionism and third world art: a post-colonial approach to 'American' art / David Craven -- To avoid the inscrutable: abstract expressionism and the 'Oriental mode' / Stanley K. Abe -- Abstraction and modern Chinese art / David Clarke -- Rethinking calligraphic modernism / Iftikhar Dadi -- Abstraction as infection and cure / Mark A. Cheetham -- Autobiography of an (ex)coloured surface: monochrome and liminality / Angeline Morrison -- 'It's not enough to say "black is beautiful"': abstraction at the Whitney, 1969-1974 / Kellie Jones -- Black Atlantic abstraction: Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling / Kobena Mercer Quantum ghosts: an interview with Wilson Harris / Nathaniel Mackey