What Was Africa to the Harlem Renaissance? Professor Kobena Mercer’s New Book Delves into the Legacy of Alain Locke
Professor Kobena Mercer and the cover of his new book, Alain Locke and the Visual Arts (Yale University Press, 2022)
The video artist Isaac Julien and the cultural theorist and Bard professor Kobena Mercer explore the legacy of Harlem Renaissance leader Alain Locke, his relationship with so-called “primitive” African sculpture, and the “queering of the New Negro.” Professor Mercer’s new book Alain Locke and the Visual Arts (Yale University Press, 2022) is discussed in the New Yorker in tandem with Julien's new multiscreen commission, “Once Again . . . (Statues Never Die),” at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Kobena Mercer is the Charles P. Stevenson Chair in Art History and the Humanities, a joint appointment between the Art History and Visual Culture Program in the undergraduate College, and the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS).
Post Date: 08-16-2022
Post Date: 08-16-2022