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Cosmopolitan modernisms

Author: Kobena Mercer
Publisher: London : Institute of International Visual Arts ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
Series: Annotating art's histories.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Cross-cultural studies
Named Person: Wifredo Lam; C L R James
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kobena Mercer
ISBN: 0262633213 9780262633215 1899846417 9781899846412
OCLC Number: 57613555
Description: 208 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction --
Reflections on modern art and national identity in colonial India : an interview / Partha Mitter --
White walls, white skins : cosmopolitanism and colonialism in inter-war modernist architecture / Paul Overy --
Surrealism faced with cultural difference / Michael Richardson --
The post-modern modernism of Wifredo Lam / Lowery Stokes Sims --
Norman Lewis : 'how to get black' / Ann Eden Gibson --
Romare Bearden, 1964 : Collage as Kunstwollen / Kobena Mercer --
CLR James as critical theorist of modernist art / David Craven --
Neoconcretism and minimalism : on Ferreira Gullar's theory of the non-object / Michael Asbury.
Series Title: Annotating art's histories.
Responsibility: edited by Kobena Mercer.

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Moments of crisis and innovation in modernism's cross-cultural past, from the reception of modernist art in colonial India to the experience of African American artists in the New York art world of  Read more...
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Announcing a New SeriesThe aim of Annotating Art's Histories is to produce a wide-ranging historical understanding of cross-cultural interaction in the visual arts. The books in the series will build Read more...

 
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