Discrepant Abstraction. Edited by Kobena Mercer (Annotating Art's Histories)

Discrepant Abstraction. Edited by Kobena Mercer (Annotating Art's Histories) by Stanley K. Abe. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9781899846436.

Kobena Mercer has long been an important figure in the world of cultural theory and identity politics. He has more recently turned his attention to the fine art object itself. In this groundbreaking book Mercer and a range of other art historians and scholars examine the place of the black artist in the fine art arena. Contrary to art history artists of the African diaspora have played an ongoing and important role in advancing the high art paradigm of painting. Abstraction does not only mean Jackson Pollock! Here Mercer and his critical cohorts examine the role that black artists have played and continue to play in making painting and abstraction an engaging and meaningful conceptual practice.