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Transmodern : an art history of contact, 1920-60 / Christian Kravagna; translated by in2words.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kravagna, Christian, author.
- Series:
- Rethinking art's histories.
- Rethinking Art's Histories
- Standardized Title:
- Transmoderne. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Modern--20th century.
- Art, Modern.
- Postcolonialism and the arts.
- Intercultural communication in art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : digital file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2022.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Biography/History:
- Christian Kravagna is Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
- Summary:
- How can we reconfigure our picture of modern art after the postcolonial turn without simply adding regional art histories to the Eurocentric canon? 'Transmodern' examines the global dimension of modern art by tracing the crossroads of different modernisms in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Featuring case studies in Indian modernism, the Harlem Renaissance and post-war abstraction, it demonstrates the significance of transcultural contacts between artists from both sides of the colonial divide. The book argues for the need to study non-western avant-gardes and Black avant-gardes within the west as transmodern counter-currents to mainstream modernism.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Towards a postcolonial art history of contact
- In the shade of tall mango trees: art education and transcultural modernism in the context of the Indian independence movement
- Transcultural beginnings: decolonisation, transculturalism,and the overcoming of race
- Trees of knowledge: anthropology, art, and politics. Melville J. Herskovits and Zora Neale Hurston
- The migrant as catalyst: Winold Reiss and the Harlem Renaissance
- Encounters with masks: counter-primitivisms in Black modernism
- Purity of art in a transcultural age: modernist art theory and the culture of decolonisation
- Painting the global history of art: Hale Woodruff's The Art of the Negro
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Translated from the German.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- ISBN:
- 1-5261-7000-0
- 1-5261-6035-8
- 1-5261-6037-4
- OCLC:
- 1352975615
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