Primitivist-Modernism : Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism Hardback
by Sieglinde (Assistant Professor of American Studies, Assistant Professor of American Studies, Lemke
Part of the The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series series
Hardback
Description
This book offers a bold new account of modernism. By focusing on cubism, primitivist-modernism, jazz, and Josephine Baker's performance, Lemke demonstrates that black art exerted a crucial if masked presence in both Euro-American high art and popular culture.
American and European modernism owe much of their symbolic capital to the black cultural other.
Black American artists, for their part, also relied on Euro-American American models.
By reappropriating European primitivist-modernism, they invented a sui generis black modernism.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:192 pages, 15 halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:25/06/1998
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- ISBN:9780195104035
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:192 pages, 15 halftones
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:25/06/1998
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195104035
