Isaac Julien

by Kobena Mercer, Chris Darke

Isaac Julien is one of Britain's foremost artist film-makers, as equally acclaimed for his fluent and arresting single-screen works as his vibrant and inventive gallery installations. Moving deftly between filmworld and artworld, Julien remains one of the most original voices on the contemporary scene. This minigraph edition, published at the time of his nomination for the 2001 Turner Prize, features essays by Kobena Mercer and Chris Darke, and provides a vivid visual introduction to a unique and prolific career spanning almost 20 years.

84 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Kobena Mercer is a writer and critic living in London. He is the editor of Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures, Cosmopolitan Modernisms, and Discrepant Abstraction (all published by The MIT Press and inIVA), author of Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies, and an inaugural recipient of the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing, presented by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.