书名：Alain Locke and the Visual Arts / 阿兰·洛克与视觉艺术

作者：Kobena Mercer

出版：Yale University Press ，2022

装帧：精装，240页

语种：英文

尺寸：18.4*26 cm

对这位颇具影响力的评论家的全新视角，为理解哈莱姆文艺复兴时期的艺术提供了新途径

阿兰·洛克（1885-1954），哈莱姆文艺复兴时期的领军理论家，一生致力于视觉艺术。科贝纳·默瑟深入研究了洛克的著作及其对艺术界的干预，着重强调了跨文化交织的重要性。这一独特视角揭示了洛克对现代艺术的愿景：它是一个动态空间，在这个空间里，图像和思想在流散的灵活条件下生成新的形式。

默瑟将这位哲学家定位为非洲现代美学的倡导者，其美学既汲取了欧洲的形式实验，也继承了非洲过去的标志性遗产。他展示了亚伦·道格拉斯、洛伊丝·麦卢·琼斯等“新黑人”艺术家如何认识到流散群体与祖先过去的断裂，并将其视为身份重生的前奏。在洛克1940年的画册《艺术中的黑人》中，他还探讨了黑白艺术家以不同方式描绘黑人形象的现象。默瑟的解读突出了黑人图像跨越国家和民族边界的全球流动性。最后，默瑟探讨了洛克的艺术投入如何受到同性恋男性审美主义的影响。包括里士满·巴塞和卡尔·范·维克滕在内的黑人男性裸体作品，因此揭示了同性恋实践在现代主义跨文化起源中的重要意义。

A fresh perspective on the influential critic, offering new ways of understanding the art of the Harlem Renaissance

Alain Locke (1885–1954), leading theorist of the Harlem Renaissance, maintained a lifelong commitment to the visual arts. Offering an in-depth study of Locke’s writings and art world interventions, Kobena Mercer focuses on the importance of cross-cultural entanglement. This distinctive approach reveals Locke’s vision of modern art as a dynamic space where images and ideas generate new forms under the fluid conditions of diaspora.

Positioning the philosopher as an advocate for an Afromodern aesthetic that drew from both formal experiments in Europe and the iconic legacy of the African past, Mercer shows how Aaron Douglas, Lo?s Mailou Jones, and other New Negro artists acknowledged the diaspora’s rupture with the ancestral past as a prelude to the rebirth of identity. In his 1940 picture book, The Negro in Art, Locke also explored the different ways black and white artists approached the black image. Mercer’s reading highlights the global mobility of black images as they travel across national and ethnic frontiers. Finally, Mercer examines how Locke’s investment in art was shaped by gay male aestheticism. Black male nudes, including works by Richmond Barthé and Carl Van Vechten, thus reveal the significance of queer practices in modernism’s cross-cultural genesis.