Transmodern : an art history of contact, 1920-60.

Transmodern examines the global dimension of modern art by tracing the crossroads of modernisms in Asia, Europe and the Americas. It explores path-breaking transcultural art practices from the 1920s to the 1960s in the framework of decolonial movements and transcultural thinking.

Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Kravagna, Christian
Awduron Eraill: in2words
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.
Cyfres:Rethinking Art's Histories Ser.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv333krzc
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • Front Matter
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Towards a postcolonial art history of contact
  • In the shade of tall mango trees: art education and transcultural modernism in the context of the Indian independence movement
  • Transcultural beginnings: decolonisation, transculturalism,and the overcoming of race
  • Trees of knowledge: anthropology, art, and politics. Melville J. Herskovits and Zora Neale Hurston
  • The migrant as catalyst: Winold Reiss and the Harlem Renaissance
  • Encounters with masks: counter-primitivisms in Black modernism
  • Purity of art in a transcultural age: modernist art theory and the culture of decolonisation
  • Painting the global history of art: Hale Woodruff's The Art of the Negro
  • Bibliography
  • Index