Kravagna Transmodern

An art history of contact, 1920–60
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6037-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: Rethinking Art's Histories

Transmodern examines the global dimension of modern art by tracing the crossroads of modernisms in Asia, Europe and the Americas. It explores path-breaking transcultural art practices from the 1920s to the 1960s in the framework of decolonial movements and transcultural thinking.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kravagna, Christian

Weitere Mitwirkende

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Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 Toward a postcolonial art history of contact
2 In the shade of tall mango trees: art education and transcultural modernism in the context of the Indian independence movement
3 Transcultural beginnings: decolonisation, transculturalism and the overcoming of race
4 Trees of knowledge: anthropology, art and politics. Melville J. Herskovits and Zora Neale Hurston – Harlem circa 1930
5 The migrant as catalyst: Winold Reiss and the Harlem Renaissance
6 Encounters with masks: counter-primitivisms in Black modernism
7 Purity of art in a transcultural age: modernist art theory and the culture of decolonisation
8 Painting the global history of art: Hale Woodruff’s The Art of the Negro
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christian Kravagna is Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna