Modern Art in Africa, Asia and Latin America

An Introduction to Global Modernisms
Herausgeber: O'Brien, Elaine; Tejada, Roberto; Coffey, Mary K; Genocchio, Benjamin; Chiu, Melissa; Nicodemus, Everlyn

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Produktbeschreibung

Shedding fresh light on the influence of modern art beyond the West, this timely anthology provides a much-needed corrective to the Eurocentric historiography of modern art, redefining it as a global rather than purely Western phenomenon and offering a more worldly and expanded view than any existing modern art survey. Divided in to three sections focusing on the geographic areas that have often been left out of conversations around modernity, the volume brings together a selection of major essays and historical documents addressing not only painting and sculpture but photography, film and architecture as well. Section introductions, critical essays, and documents provide the relevant contextual material, link each narrative to other art histories in the book, supply essential background information, and guide the reader through the key theoretical positions and debates. Bringing together narratives of modern art that have been scattered in area studies of Asian, African, and Latin American art history, the volume tells a more accurate story of the radical transformation associated with modernity worldwide and opens the subject up to cross-cultural comparison. Modern Art in Africa, Asia and Latin America also addresses often-neglected topics in modern art that are especially relevant to the study of postmodernity, such as modern art in diaspora, colonial art education and institutions, and pre-histories of new media, concepts, and methods. This is a useful tool for all students and scholars of non-Western modernisms which will encourage a deeper engagement with, and understanding of, modern art as a global phenomenon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 196mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 1043g
• ISBN-13: 9781444332292
• ISBN-10: 1444332295
• Artikelnr.: 35450800

Autorenporträt

Elaine O'Brien is a Professor of Modern & Contemporary Art at California State University, Sacramento. Everlyn Nicodemus is an artist and writer living and working in Edinburgh, UK, and holds a Ph.D. from Middlesex University, London. Melissa Chiu is Museum Director and Vice President, Global Art Programs, Asia Society in New York. Benjamin Genocchio is editor in chief of Art & Auction Magazine, New York. He holds a Ph.D. in art history and is the author and editor of six books. Mary K. Coffey is Associate Professor of Art History at Dartmouth College. Roberto Tejada is Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History, Southern Methodist University.

Rezensionen

"This is a much-needed volume offering a truly globalperspective on modernism, a comparative investigation oftranscultural interchanges, and a revision of current notions ofperipheral modernities."
- Günter Berghaus, University of Bristol

"The scholarship assembled in this volume presents awelcome and long-overdue challenge to Eurocentric histories ofmodernism. Charting the development of the first truly global artpractices, it opens up a critical space for further research ongeographies too often neglected by Western academia."
- Jean Fisher, PhD, Professor Emeritus, MiddlesexUniversity

"Modern Art in Africa, Asia, and Latin America remapsmodern art from a global perspective. Its groundbreaking analysisengages the multiple locations and transcultural histories ofmodern art through critical texts that chart its development inAfrican, Asian, and Latin American contexts. The resultinganthology defeats once and for all the usual narrative of modernart as a strictly Western European phenomenon."
- Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, University of California SantaBarbara

"This ambitious, wide-ranging volume aims to challenge andcorrect misconceptions about non-western art that it has little tocontribute to global modernism. Balanced by a judicious mixture oforiginal sources and deeply researched, theoretically acutechapters written by internationally respected authorities, thevolume will be an indispensable tool for students, scholars and allthose interested in a more critical history of globalmodernism."
- Partha Mitter, University of Sussex