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The Black Art Renaissance: African Sculpture and Modernism Across Continents

The Black Art Renaissance: African Sculpture and Modernism Across Continents - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Joshua I. CohenPublish date:2020-08-04Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520309685ISBN-10:520309685UPC:9780520309685Book Category:ArtBook Subcategory:History, African, Sculpture & InstallationBook Topic:Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)Size:10.20 x 7.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:2.3016Product ID:SCH61JMAPG
Reading African art's impact on modernism as an international phenomenon, The "Black Art" Renaissance tracks a series of twentieth-century engagements with canonical African sculpture by European, African American, and sub-Saharan African artists and theorists. Notwithstanding its occurrence during the benighted colonial period, the Paris avant-garde "discovery" of African sculpture--known then as art n gre, or "black art"--eventually came to affect nascent Afro-modernisms, whose artists and critics commandeered visual and rhetorical uses of the same sculptural canon and the same term. Within this trajectory, "black art" evolved as a framework for asserting control over appropriative practices introduced by Europeans, and it helped forge alliances by redefining concepts of humanism, race, and civilization. From the Fauves and Picasso to the Harlem Renaissance, and from the work of South African artist Ernest Mancoba to the imagery of Negritude and the cole de Dakar, African sculpture's influence proved transcontinental in scope and significance. Through this extensively researched study, Joshua I. Cohen argues that art history's alleged centers and margins must be conceived as interconnected and mutually informing. The "Black Art" Renaissance reveals just how much modern art has owed to African art on a global scale.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520309685ISBN-10:520309685UPC:9780520309685Book Category:ArtBook Subcategory:History, African, Sculpture & InstallationBook Topic:Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)Size:10.20 x 7.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:2.3016Product ID:SCH61JMAPG
Joshua I. Cohen is Assistant Professor of Art History at The City College of New York. His writing has appeared in The Art Bulletin, African Arts, Journal of Black Studies, Wasafiri, and other publications.
Publisher: University of California Press

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