Joshua I Cohen

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The Black Art Renaissance: African Sculpture and Modernism Across ContinentsHardcover, 4 August 2020

The Black Art Renaissance: African Sculpture and Modernism Across Continents
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Print Length
304 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of California Press
Date Published
4 Aug 2020
ISBN-10
0520309685
ISBN-13
9780520309685

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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 nègre, 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 École 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.

Product Details

Author:
Joshua I Cohen
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
MY
Date Published:
4 August 2020
Dimensions:
25.91 x 18.8 x 2.54 cm
Genre:
African
ISBN-10:
0520309685
ISBN-13:
9780520309685
Language:
English
Pages:
304
Weight:
1043.26 gm

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