Description
| Product ID: | 9780520309685 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | The Black Art Renaissance |
| Subtitle: | African Sculpture and Modernism across Continents |
| Authors: | Author: Joshua I. Cohen |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | History of art, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, Non-graphic and electronic art forms, African history, Non-graphic art forms, African history, Europe, Africa |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-08-04 |