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...
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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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.
Front Matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Towards a postcolonial art history of contact -- In the shade of tall mango trees: art education and transcultural modernism in the context of the Indian independence movement -- Transcultural beginnings: decolonisation, transculturalism,and the overcoming of race -- Trees of knowledge: anthropology, art, and politics. Melville J. Herskovits and Zora Neale Hurston -- The migrant as catalyst: Winold Reiss and the Harlem Renaissance -- Encounters with masks: counter-primitivisms in Black modernism -- Purity of art in a transcultural age: modernist art theory and the culture of decolonisation -- Painting the global history of art: Hale Woodruff's The Art of the Negro -- Bibliography -- Index.