Primitivist modernism : black culture and the origins of transatlantic modernism / Sieglinde Lemke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lemke, Sieglinde.

Series:

W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Series)

W.E.B. DuBois Institute

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Art)--Europe.

Modernism (Art).

African American arts--Influence.

African American arts.

Arts, Black--Influence.

Arts, Black.

Europe.

Arts, European.

Modernism (Art)--United States.

United States.

Arts, American.

Physical Description:

183 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Summary:

Insisting on modernism's two-way cultural flow, Lemke demonstrates not only that white modernism owes much of its symbolic capital to the black Other, but that black modernism built itself in part on white Euro-American models. Through readings of individual texts and images (fifteen examples of which are reproduced in this volume), Lemke reforms our understanding of modernism. She shows us that transatlantic modernism in both its high and popular modes was significantly more diverse than commonly supposed. Students and scholars of modernism, African American studies, and cultural studies, and those with interests in twentieth-century art, dance, music, or literature, will find this book rewarding.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-174) and index.

ISBN:

019510403X

OCLC:

36315835