by Jon Lackman | 27 April 2006 | Books, Modern
In Frieze, Kodwo Eshun reviews Cosmopolitan Modernisms, edited by Kobena Mercer, “the first volume in a new series titled ‘Annotating Art’s Histories’. In his acutely incisive introduction Mercer notes the unintended consequences of visual culture’s ‘tendency to roam across the cultural sphere at large’. Such swaggering interdisciplinarity, he points out, inadvertently ends up reinforcing existing art-historical indifference to the lives and works of minoritarian Modernists … Cosmopolitan Modernisms is a volume whose rigorous revisionism is matched only by its principled modesty; one is left waiting for the painstaking termite-criticism of future volumes.”
