Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-433) and index. General Introduction: "The Location of Modern Art" / Elaine O'Brien -- I. African Modern Art -- Introduction: African Modern Art : An Ongoing Project / Everlyn Nicodemus -- Modern African Art / Chika Okeke -- From Country to City: The Development of an Urban Art / Steven Sack -- Nomfanekiso Who Paints at Night: The Art of Gladys Mgudlandlu / Elza Miles -- Negritude, Pan-Africanism, and Postcolonial African Identity: African Portrait Photography / Okwui Enwezor and Octavio Zaya -- A Critical Presence: Drum Magazine in Context / Okwui Enwezor Art of the African Diaspora / Michael Harris -- Chorale: Man, Society, and Technology: An Experiment in Rural Egypt / Hassan Fathy -- Oral Tradition and the Aesthetics of Black African Cinema / Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike --On National Culture / Frantz Fanon -- Discourse on Colonialism / Aime Cesaire -- Natural Synthesis / Uche Okeke -- A Historic Confrontation between Jean Rouch and Ousmane Sembene in 1965: 'You Look at Us as if We Were Insects.' / Jean Rouch and Ousmane Sembene -- II. Asian Modern Art -- India, Japan, China -- Introduction: Asian Modern Art: A Case of Alternative, Parallel and Intersecting Modernities / Melissa Chiu and Benjamin Genocchio -- Multiculturalism/Multimodernism / Jim Supangkat -- Negotiating Modernities: Encounters with Cubism in Asian Art / Ahmad Mashadi -- INDIA -- When was Modernism in Indian Art? / Geeta Kapur -- The Formalist Prelude / Partha Mitter -- E. B. Havell and Rabindranath Tagore: Nationalism, Modernity and Art / Osman Jamal -- Art and Tradition / Rabindranath Tagore -- JAPAN -- Western Style Painting in Japan: Mimesis, Individualism and Japanese Nationhood / Gennifer Weisenfeld -- Artistic Subjectivity in the Taisho and Early Showa Avant-Garde / John Clark -- The Age of Modernism: From Visualization to Socialization / Joe Takeba -- The Architectural Profession in Japan, 1850-1930 / Jonathan M. Reynolds -- Dangen wa dadaisuto / Takahashi Shinkichi -- CHINA-- Sketch conceptualism as modernist contingency / Eugene Y. Wang -- Post-Impressionists in Pre-War Shanghai: The Juelanshe (Storm Society) and the Fate of Modernism in Republican China / Ralph Croizier -- Films and Shanghai / Zheng Dongtian -- The Storm Society Manifesto / Ni Yide, Pang Xunqin, et al -- III. Latin American Modern Art -- Introduction: Modernism in Latin America: Strategic Vanguards / Mary K. Coffey and Roberto Tejada -- Our America and the West / Roberto Fernandez Retamar -- Strategies of Modernity in Latin America / Andrea Giunta -- Revolution as Ritual: Diego Rivera's National Palace Mural / Leonard Folgarait -- Africa in the Art of Latin America / Gerardo Mosquera -- Vital Structures: The Constructive Nexus in South America / Mari Carmen Ramirez -- Landscape: Errant Modernism and Aesthetics in Brazil / Esther Gabara -- The Spirit of Bras̀•ilia: Modernity as Experiment and Risk / James Holston --Carmen Miranda, Grande Otelo, and the Chanchada, 1929-1949 / Robert Stam --To Roosevelt / Ruben Dario -- Essays on Latin American Art / Joaquin Torres-Garcia -- The Cosmic Race / Jose Vasconcelo -- Cannibalist Manifesto / Oswald de Andrade and Leslie Bary, translator -- Brasilia / Clarice Lispector
Summary:
"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 survey Brings together a selection of major essays and historical documents from a wide range of sources Section introductions, critical essays, and documents provide the relevant contextual and historiographical material, link the selections together, and guide the reader through the key theoretical positions and debates Offers a useful tool for students and scholars with little or no prior knowledge of non-Western modernisms Includes many contrasting voices in its documents and essays, encouraging reader response and lively classroom discussion Includes a selection of major essays and historical documents addressing not only painting and sculpture but photography, film and architecture as well. "-- Provided by publisher.
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