Modern art in Africa, Asia and Latin America
Subtitle: an introduction to global modernisms
By: edited by Elaine O'Brien... [et al.].
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9781444332292; 9781444332308
Subjects: Art movements; Modern Art; ART / General; History
Description: "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a more worldly and expanded view than any existing modern art survey  Brings together a selection of major essays and historical documents from a wide range of sources  Section introductions, critical essays, and documents provide the relevant contextual and historiographical material, link the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and essays, encouraging reader response and lively classroom discussion  Includes a selection of major essays and historical documents addressing not only painting and sculpture but photography, film and architecture as well.  "--

"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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: General Introduction: "The Location of Modern Art" Elaine O'Brien 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 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 Taish? and Early Sh?wa Avant-Garde John Clark The Age of Modernism: From Visualization to Socialization Takeba Joe The Architectural Profession in Japan, 1850-1930" Jonathan M. Reynolds Dangenwa 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 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 Ram&iacute;rez Landscape: Errant Modernism and Aesthetics in Brazil Esther Gabara The Spirit of Bras&iacute;lia: Modernity as Experiment and Risk James Holston Carmen Miranda, Grande Otelo, and the Chanchada, 1929-1949 Robert Stam To Roosevelt Ruben Dar&iacute;o The School of the South Joaqu&iacute;n Torres-Garc&iacute;a The New Art of America Joaqu&iacute;n Torres-Garc&iacute;a The Cosmic Race Jose Vasconcelo Cannibalist Manifesto Oswald de Andrade and Leslie Bary, translator Bras&iacute;lia Clarice Lispector .