Modern Art in Africa, Asia and Latin America An Introduction to Global Modernisms

Name: Modern Art in Africa, Asia and Latin America An Introduction to Global Modernisms
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ISBN: 9781444332308

ISBN-10: 1444332309

ISBN-13: 9781444332308

Edition: 2012

Authors: Elaine O'Brien, Everlyn Nicodemus, Melissa Chiu, Benjamin Genocchio, Mary K. Coffey

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Shedding fresh light on modern art beyond the West, this text introduces readers to artists, art movements, debates and theoretical positions of the modern era that continue to shape contemporary art worldwide. Area histories of modern art are repositioned and interconnected towards a global art historiography. Provides a much–needed corrective to the Eurocentric historiography of modern art, offering a more worldly and expanded view than any existing modern art surveyBrings together a selection of major essays and historical documents from a wide range of sourcesSection introductions, critical essays, and documents provide the relevant contextual and historiographical material, link the…

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List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 9/7/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 7.40" wide x 9.60" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 2.002
Language: English

Melissa Chiu is Museum Director and Vice President of GlobalArt Programs at the Asia Society in New York.

Benjamin Genocchio is a formerart critic for the New York Times and is currently editor-in-chief of Art+ Auction and Modern Painters magazine.



List of Figures


Acknowledgments


General Introduction: The Location of Modern Art




African Modern Art


Introduction: African Modern Art: An Ongoing Project




Modern African Art




From Country to City: The Development of an Urban Art




Nomfanekiso Who Paints at Night: The Art of Gladys Mgudlandlu




Negritude, Pan-Africanism, and Postcolonial African Identity: African Portrait Photography




A Critical Presence: Drum Magazine in Context




Art of the African Diaspora




Chorale: Man, Society, and Technology: An Experiment in Rural Egypt




Oral Tradition and the Aesthetics of Black African Cinema




On National Culture




Discourse on Colonialism




Natural Synthesis




A Historic Confrontation between Jean Rouch and Ousmane Sembï¿½ne in 1965: ï¿½You Look at Us as if We Were Insectsï¿½



Asian Modern Art: India, Japan, China


India


Japan


China


Latin American Modern Art