Annotating Art’s Histories: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in the Visual Arts
This series was edited by Kobena Mercer for the Institute of International Visual Arts (InIVA), London, and consisted of four anthologies exploring alternative modernisms. This series is no longer active and the MIT Press is no longer accepting proposals for books in the series.
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Cosmopolitan Modernisms
ISBN: 9780262633215
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 19, 2005
Moments of crisis and innovation in modernism's cross-cultural past, from the reception of modernist art in colonial India to the experience of African American artists in the New York art world of the 1950s.
Exiles, Diasporas and Strangers
Exiles, Diasporas and Strangers
ISBN: 9780262633581
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 18, 2008
The first thematic and cross-cultural overview of the experiences of migration and displacement that characterize so much of twentieth-century art.
Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures
Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures
ISBN: 9780262633505
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 13, 2007
A cross-cultural perspective on the aesthetics and politics of pop art.
Discrepant Abstraction
ISBN: 9780262633376
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 14, 2006
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.
Cosmopolitan Modernisms
ISBN: 9780262633215
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 19, 2005
Moments of crisis and innovation in modernism's cross-cultural past, from the reception of modernist art in colonial India to the experience of African American artists in the New York art world of the 1950s.
Exiles, Diasporas and Strangers
Exiles, Diasporas and Strangers
ISBN: 9780262633581
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 18, 2008
The first thematic and cross-cultural overview of the experiences of migration and displacement that characterize so much of twentieth-century art.
Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures
Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures
ISBN: 9780262633505
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 13, 2007
A cross-cultural perspective on the aesthetics and politics of pop art.
Discrepant Abstraction
ISBN: 9780262633376
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 14, 2006
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.