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Stuart Hall and the Visual Arts
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 78–87.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Kobena Mercer Contrary to the view that Stuart Hall's involvement in the visual arts was a supplement to his work in cultural studies and political analysis, this reflection addresses key continuities that connect his 1970s writings on racism and the media with the enlivening impact that the hybrid...
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Art History and the Dialogics of Diaspora
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 213–227.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Kobena Mercer Proposing Bakhtin's dialogical principle as a guiding light for cross-cultural studies in art historical research on the diasporic formation of Afro-modernism, Kobena Mercer's discussion essay highlights the value of his postformalist outlook as he responds to commentaries by Eddie...
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Hew Locke’s Postcolonial Baroque
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (1 (34)): 1–25.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Kobena Mercer © 2011 by Small Axe, Inc. 2011 Examining the work of British-Guyanese artist Hew Locke in view of the 17th century aesthetic category of the baroque, this essay suggests that Walter Benjamin’s conception of allegory provides the most fitting interpretive framework...
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Nonsynchronous Cartographies: Frank Bowling's Map Paintings
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 255–273.
Published: 01 July 2013
... complexities that inform his aesthetic practices as both theorist and painter, or what Kobena Mercer has aptly referred to as Bowling's “discrepant abstraction.” The nature of the “discrepancies” in Bowling's work is the focus of this essay. © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc. 2013 Born in British Guiana (now...
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Feasting on Scraps
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 198–212.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Huey Copeland In this essay, Huey Copeland, taking his cue from artist Glenn Ligon's work on the family photo album, launches a consideration of cultural critic Kobena Mercer's important four-volume series Annotating Art's Histories (2004–8). Copeland argues that these anthologies, a veritable...
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The Difficulties of Naming White Things
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 186–197.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Eddie Chambers In considering Kobena Mercer's four-volume edited series Annotating Art's Histories (2004–8), Eddie Chambers sets out to critique the often unspoken but nevertheless hegemonic and complicated racial hierarchies that exist across many of the country's universities, with particular...
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Marcus Garvey in Stereograph
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 263–280.
Published: 01 March 2013
.... 7 Kobena Mercer, “Art History and the Dialogics of Diaspora,” Small Axe , no. 38 (July 2012): 214. 6 Oliver Wendell Holmes, “The Stereoscope and the Stereograph,” Atlantic Monthly , June 1859; reprinted in Alan Trachtenberg, Classic Essays on Photography (New Haven, CT: Leetes Island...
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Baby on the Blender: A Visual History of Catastrophe in Haiti
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 134–154.
Published: 01 November 2011
... to those who have died by guns and knives. . . . Such funeral sites . . .
also frequently include children’s toys as a kind of painful memento mori.
—Kobena Mercer, “Hew Locke’s Postcolonial Baroque”
The Street finds its own uses for things.
—William Gibson, “Burning Chrome”
If we take...
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Riffing on Omeros : The Relevance of Isaac Julien to Cultural Politics in the Caribbean
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 83–96.
Published: 01 July 2010
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between image and sound, as in the installations Vagabondia (2001), Paradise Omeros (2002),
Baltimore (2003), True North (2004), and Fantôme Afrique (2005).
6 Chris Darke, “Territories: The Tell-Tale Trajectory of Isaac Julien,” in Kobena Mercer and Chris Darke, eds., Isaac Julien...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2019
.... For me, while these are obviously occasions for presenting my work and my ideas, travel such as this is also a self-reflective practice, a way of learning through displacement. Kobena Mercer has offered us the provocative image of travel as a visual experience, and I appreciate that, but it is also...
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Contributors
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (1 (34)): 187–188.
Published: 01 March 2011
... through the social and political thought of C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter. He is the coeditor, with Alissa Trotz, of a special issue of Race and Class, Caribbean Trajectories: 200 Years On (2007). Kobena Mercer writes and teaches on the visual arts of the black diaspora. He is author of Welcome...
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Through Archie Lindo’s Lens: Uncovering the Queer Subtext in Nationalist Jamaican Art
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 143–163.
Published: 01 November 2020
... the ways the black male body was mobilized in the development of Jamaican art and visual culture. That Lindo does not represent the dominant white male heterosexual gaze is something that I considered only after reading Kobena Mercer’s surprisingly sympathetic analysis of Robert Mapplethorpe’s homoerotic...
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The Archive and the Repertoire in Roshini Kempadoo's Ghosting
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 110–125.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of the artists from the BLK Arts Group that emerged in Britain in the 1980s. 8 Members of the group reflected—both ethnically and stylistically—the diversity that would later be used against their art practice, especially through what Kobena Mercer sees as the excessive critical focus on artists' biographies...
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Timings, Canon, and Art History
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 167–176.
Published: 01 July 2015
... Gilroy, Stuart Hall (1932–2014), Salah Hassan, Sarat Maharaj, Kobena Mercer, Annie Paul, Gilane Tawadros, Krista Thompson, and others, 6 have long argued and developed (and, I thought, established) the “craft” of contemporary art criticism that takes into consideration postcolonial and feminist...
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The West Indian Front Room: Reflections on a Diasporic Phenomenon
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 135–156.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of British society.15
And in the front room as communal family space, the third moment was when The Fosters
attempted to reassure viewers that black families, in sitcoms at least, were just as “normal”
12 Kobena Mercer, Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural...
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Caribbean Women Writers and the Politics of Style: A Case for Literary Anancyism
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 64–79.
Published: 01 March 2005
... hyphenated American identities, which in turn has resulted
in the demand for texts that are “representative” and “authentic.” Elizabeth Parvanisini-
Gebert describes the demand for authenticity as a trap, or a “lure”; critic Kobena Mercer
ssmallmall elaborates on this problem, revealing...
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Gazing Outward and Looking Back: Configuring Caribbean Visual Culture
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 136–153.
Published: 01 July 2013
... Writings by cultural theorists such as Kobena Mercer and Lisa Nakamura are also important for exploring the enrichment of visual cultures in relation to diaspora, migration, blackness, race, the Internet, and screen-based media. 4 Three kinds of cultural practices are presented in this essay...
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Schematics of Memory
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 96–116.
Published: 01 July 2011
... and frigate-style ships that transported indentured servants and
enslaved Africans to the Americas. Its layered and chaotic appearance has been likened to
a “diaspora baroque” by art historian Kobena Mercer,29 but from a historical standpoint, this
visual pandemonium might reference...
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Flow and Arrest
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 205–224.
Published: 01 November 2015
.... 52 For a sustained consideration of these questions, see Kobena Mercer, “Art History and the Dialogics of Diaspora,” Small Axe , no. 38 (July 2012): 213–27. 53 On this score, I think, in particular, of the art historian James Meyer's accounting of his own approach: “In combining aspects...
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Beyond Francophonie: Contextualizing Éloge de la créolité
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 199–210.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Artists Movement, 1966–1972: A Literary and Cultural History (London: New Beacon, 1992). 31 See, for example, Kobena Mercer, “Stuart Hall and the Visual Arts,” Small Axe , no. 46 (March 2015): 78–87. 32 Walmsley, Caribbean Artists Movement , 137. 33 For identification of the men...
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