Cosmopolitan modernisms / edited by Kobena Mercer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mercer, Kobena, 1960-

Series:

Annotating art's histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and globalization--History--20th century.

Art and globalization.

Multiculturalism in art.

Modernism (Art)--Cross-cultural studies.

Modernism (Art).

Cross-cultural studies.

History.

Physical Description:

208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Institute of International Visual Arts ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2005]

Summary:

Cosmopolitan Modernisms explores various moments in 20th-century art where the encounter between different cultures has produced something distinctive and revealing about the lived experience of modernity. Distinguished art historians and emerging scholars are brought together in this book by a critical dialogue that pushes beyond separate areas of study to arrive at a more connective approach to the history of art.

Travelling through a variety of historical contexts, from colonial India and pre-war Germany, to post-1945 Brazil, and the Caribbean and African American spaces of the black Atlantic diaspora, this unique collection re-defines the 'cosmopolitan' as a critical aspect of the questioning attitude that artists adopted throughout the world.

Featuring internationally respected scholars at the cutting edge of contemporary research, Cosmopolitan Modernisms is the first volume in the Annotating Art's Histories series. Each volume builds up an in-depth understanding of cultural difference as a constant factor in the history of art. Presenting newly-commissioned writings alongside translations, interviews, bibliographies, and selected reprints of hard-to-find texts, this innovative series is essential reading for students, practitioners and anyone curious about cross-cultural interaction in the visual arts.

Contents:

Reflections on Modern Art and National Identity in Colonial India: An Interview / Partha Mitter 24

White Walls, White Skins: Cosmopolitanism and Colonialism in Inter-war Modernist Architecture / Paul Overy 50

Surrealism Faced with Cultural Difference / Michael Richardson 68

The Post-modern Modernism of Wifredo Lam / Lowery Stokes Sims 86

Norman Lewis: 'How to Get Black' / Ann Eden Gibson 102

Romare Bearden, 1964: Collage as Kunstwollen / Kobena Mercer 124

C.L.R. James as a Critical Theorist of Modernist Art / David Craven 146

Neoconcretism and Minimalism: On Ferreira Gullar's Theory of the Non-Object / Michael Asbury 168.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0262633213

1899846417

OCLC:

57613555