Noël / Samantha A. Noel Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1289-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas

Samantha A. Noël investigates how Black Caribbean and American artists of the early twentieth century responded to and challenged colonial and other hegemonic regimes through tropicalist representation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Noël, Samantha A.

Samantha A. Noel, Noel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Tropicality, Modernity, and the African Diaspora 1
1. American Tropical Modernism: The African Diasporic Reaches of Aaron Douglas's Landscapes 23
2. Brazenly Avant-Garde: Wifredo Lam's Transformation of Cuba's Tropical Terrain 60
3. Early Twentieth-Century Trinidad Carnival: Tropicality and Strategies of Space-Making 96
4. Pan-African Geographies in Motion: The Tropical Performances of Maya Angelou and Josephine Baker 142
Conclusion. The Black Body, Tropicality, and the Black Speculative 177
Notes 195
Bibliography 221
Index 237

Über Autor(innen)

Samantha A. Noël is Assistant Professor in Art History at Wayne State University.