Kerry James Marshall: The Painter of Afro-Modern Life

Kobena Mercer considers Kerry James Marshall’s paintings set against a backdrop of different modernisms: Greenbergian Modernism, with its dialectic of addition and substraction; postmodernism, with its disdain for painting; and Afro-Modernism, with its negotiations of historical and contemporary con...

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Published in:Afterall 2019-09, Vol.48 (1), p.38-51
Main Author: Mercer, Kobena
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Black culture
Civil rights movements
Collage
Marshall, Kerry James
Modernism
Painters
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Summary:Kobena Mercer considers Kerry James Marshall’s paintings set against a backdrop of different modernisms: Greenbergian Modernism, with its dialectic of addition and substraction; postmodernism, with its disdain for painting; and Afro-Modernism, with its negotiations of historical and contemporary contradictions.
ISSN:1465-4253
2156-4914
DOI:10.1086/706126