Geometries of Afro Asia - Art Beyond Solidarity

"Pathbreaking! The Geometries of Afro Asia cuts across boundaries, in all senses of the word, emphasizing how Afro Asian artistic relationships lead the world. A pioneering work that splendidly articulates how deimperializing works across the globe. Simply a must-read."--Kuan-Hsing Chen, author of Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization

"'Together, ' 'relation, ' 'common, ' 'friendship.' Such are but a few of the liberating keywords in the passionately humanistic, genuinely groundbreaking art history Joan Kee invents and enacts in these pages. This book's many brilliant analyses of discrete artistic and social formations answer the need to track representations that no single concept of difference can capture."--Darby English, Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History, University of Chicago

"With a deep understanding of art's capaciousness, Kee beautifully brings to the surface the suppressed connections, affiliations, and histories of work by artists of African and Asian descent. The Geometries of Afro Asia also pressures us to consider that art production does not always pivot around whiteness and the West."--Steven Nelson, Dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art

​"The most exciting art history book in years. Kee not only writes important first drafts of history, she creates ambitious new ways to write history itself. The Geometries of Afro Asia will undoubtedly reshape scholarship across many fields."--Katy Siegel, Distinguished Professor and Thaw Chair, Stony Brook University

About the author

Joan Kee is Professor in the History of Art at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method and Models of Integrity: Art and Law in Post-Sixties America.

Product details

• Authors: Joan Kee, Kee Joan
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.03.2023
• EAN: 9780520392458
• ISBN: 978-0-520-39245-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Ethnic Studies, Asia, The arts: general issues, HISTORY / Asia / General, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, ART / History / General, ART / African, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Asian History, African History, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Black & Asian Studies, ART / American / African American & Black, The arts: general topics, Relating to African American / Black American people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies