Full Description
Diversifying the current art historical scholarship, this edited volume presents the untold story of modern art by exposing global voices and perspectives excluded from the privileged and uncontested narrative of "isms."
This volume tells a worldwide story of art with expanded historical narratives of modernism. The chapters reflect on a wide range of issues, topics, and themes that have been marginalized or outright excluded from the canon of modern art. The goal of this book is to be a starting point for understanding modern art as a broad and inclusive field of study. The topics examine diverse formal expressions, innovative conceptual approaches, and various media used by artists around the world and forcefully acknowledge the connections between art, historical circumstances, political environments, and social issues such as gender, race, and social justice.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, imperial and colonial history, modernism, and globalization.
Contents
Introduction. Modern Art: A Global Story Prequel: Helen Gardner's Art Through the Ages Part I: 1870-1900 1. Impressionism and Globalization 2. Picturing the Dead 3. Art and Revival in Nineteenth-Century Ireland 4. The Marbelous Movement 5. 'On or About 1910' 6. Modernism, Transnational Netowrks and Pan-Africanism Part II: 1920-1940 7. Berlin, Bauhaus, Bucharest 8. Chinese Photography Criticism and Theory in Republican China 9. Primitive Surfaces 10. The Black Legend of Mexican Painting 11. Neo-Baroque Architecture and Sculpture in the Portugese Estado Novo Part III: 1940-1970 12. Inter-Asian cultural dialogues 13. Thomas Farkas and Mid-century Brazilian Photographic Networks 14. Modern Islamicate Painting 15. Two Pioneering Women Bring Abstraction to the Andes 16. TheGlobal Contexts pf Modern African Art 17. A Full Embrace of the Global in Modern Art: Museum Exhibitions and Art History Conclusion
