Tropical aesthetics of black modernism
By: Samantha A. Noël
Contributors: Duke University Press; Duke University Press
Series: The visual arts of Africa and its diasporas; Visual arts of Africa and its diasporas
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781478010333; 9781478011408; 9781478012894
Subjects: Black Art; Themes, motives; African American artists; Caribbean Art; In art
Description: "Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism considers how Caribbean and American artists of the early twentieth century are responding to the colonial and hegemonic regimes through visual and performative tropicalist representation. By proposing an alternative understanding of the tropics, this book demonstrates how Aaron Douglas, Wifredo Lam, Josephine Baker, Maya Angelou, and some masqueraders and designers of Trinidad Carnival effectively contributed to the development of Black modernity, and even Black sonic modernity. Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism aspires to broaden the epistemological reaches of the discipline of art history by acknowledging the interdisciplinarity inherent in the study of creative production of any kind"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tropicality, Modernity, and the African Diaspora; title: American Tropical Modernism: The African Diasporic Reaches of Aaron Douglas's Landscapes; title: Brazenly Avant-Garde: Wifredo Lam's Transformation of Cuba's Tropical Terrain; title: Early Twentieth-Century Trinidad Carnival: Tropicality and Strategies of Space-Making; title: Pan-African Geographies in Motion: The Tropical Performances of Maya Angelou and Josephine Baker; title: The Black Body, Tropicality, and the Black Speculative.