Kobena Mercer
Kobena Mercer (born 1960)art historian and writer on contemporary art and visual culture. His writing on Robert Mapplethorpe and Rotimi Fani-Kayode has been described as "among the most incisive (and delightful to read) critiques of simple identity-based politics in the field of cultural studies."[2]
Life and work
Mercer was born in
Goldsmiths College in 1990.[3]
Much of Mercer's writing has focused on the work and cultural context of
African Diaspora more widely.[5] He has contributed essays to numerous anthologies in the fields of cultural studies and contemporary art, including his own, groundbreaking volume, Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies, published in 1994.[6] Mercer was commissioned to contribute "New Practices, New Identities: Hybridity and Globalization," the closing chapter in the epic series The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V, The Twentieth Century (Harvard University Press, 2014).[5]
In 2006, Mercer won the inaugural
Yale.[3] It was announced in February 2021 that Bard College had appointed Mercer the Charles P. Stevenson Chair in Art History and the Humanities, and that he would assume the position in fall 2021.[8]
In 2023, Mercer received a PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award for Alain Locke & The Visual Arts (Yale University Press, 2022).
Selected bibliography
- Kobena Mercer (1994). Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies. Routledge. ISBN 9780415906357.
- Kobena Mercer; David Chandler; Gilane Tawadros (1997). ISBN 978-1899846108.
- Kobena Mercer (2003). ISBN 978-0714841694.
- Kobena Mercer, ed. (2008). Exiles, Diasporas and Strangers (Annotating Art's Histories: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in the Visual Arts). The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262633581.
- Kobena Mercer, ed. (2005). Cosmopolitan Modernisms. Institute of International Visual Arts (INIVA). ISBN 978-1899846412.
- "New Practices, New Identities: Hybridity and Globalization" in Henry Louis Gates, Jr, ed. (2014). The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V, The Twentieth Century. Harvard University Press.
Notes
- ^ "Kobena Mercer - Writer", Iniva.
- ^ Tinkcom, M. & Villarejo, A., 2001. Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies, pp. 24, Psychology Press.
- ^ a b Durden, M., 2013. Fifty Key Writers on Photography, Routledge.
- ^ Mercer, K., 2011. Hew Locke: Stranger in Paradise, Black Dog Publishing.
- ^ a b "Kobena Mercer page on Yale website". Archived from the original on 7 June 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
- ^ Walcott, R., 1996. Book Review: Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies, by Kobena Mercer, New York: Routledge, 1994. Critical Sociology, 22(2), pp. 141–144.
- ^ "2006 Clark Prize winners". The Clark. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
- ^ "Kobena Mercer Joins Bard College Faculty". Bard News. Bard. 17 February 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
External links
- Yale website
- [1] InIVAwebsite
- "Previous Clark Prize Recipients", Clark Art Institute website
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