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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Brings together a selection of major essays and historical documents from a wide range of sources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Includes a selection of major essays and historical documents addressing not only painting and sculpture but photography, film and architecture as well.
Contents
List of Figures viii Acknowledgments xi
General Introduction: The Location of Modern Art 1
Elaine O'Brien
Part I African Modern Art 15
Introduction: African Modern Art: An Ongoing Project 17
Everlyn Nicodemus
1 Modern African Art 26
Chika Okeke
2 From Country to City: The Development of an Urban Art 39
Steven Sack
3 Nomfanekiso Who Paints at Night: The Art of Gladys Mgudlandlu 45
Elza Miles
4 Negritude, Pan-Africanism, and Postcolonial African Identity: African Portrait Photography 49
Okwui Enwezor and Octavio Zaya
5 A Critical Presence: Drum Magazine in Context 58
Okwui Enwezor
6 Art of the African Diaspora 63
Michael D. Harris
7 Chorale: Man, Society, and Technology: An Experiment in Rural Egypt 73
Hassan Fathy
8 Oral Tradition and the Aesthetics of Black African Cinema 79
Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike
9 On National Culture 87
Frantz Fanon
10 Discourse on Colonialism 89
Aimé Césaire
11 Natural Synthesis 91
Uche Okeke
12 A Historic Confrontation between Jean Rouch and Ousmane Sembène in 1965: "You Look at Us as if We Were Insects" 94
Jean Rouch and Ousmane Sembène
Part II Asian Modern Art: India, Japan, China 99
Introduction: Asian Modern Art: A Case of Alternative, Parallel, and Intersecting Modernisms 101
Melissa Chiu and Benjamin Genocchio
13 Multiculturalism/Multimodernism 106
Jim Supangkat
14 Negotiating Modernities: Encounters with Cubism in Asian Art 120
Ahmad Mashadi
Section 1 India 129
15 When Was Modernism in Indian Art? 129
Geeta Kapur
16 The Formalist Prelude 138
Partha Mitter
17 E. B. Havell and Rabindranath Tagore: Nationalism, Modernity and Art 150
Osman Jamal
18 Art and Tradition 160
Rabindranath Tagore
Section 2 Japan 165
19 Western Style Painting in Japan: Mimesis, Individualism, and Japanese Nationhood 165
Gennifer Weisenfeld
20 Artistic Subjectivity in the Taishô and Early Shôwa Avant-Garde 181
John Clark
21 The Age of Modernism: From Visualization to Socialization 193
Joe Takeba
22 The Architectural Profession in Japan, 1850-1930 209
Jonathan M. Reynolds
23 Dangen wa Dadaisuto 228
Takahashi Shinkichi
Section 3 China 231
24 Sketch Conceptualism as Modernist Contingency 231
Eugene Y. Wang
25 Post-Impressionists in Pre-War Shanghai: The Juelanshe (Storm Society) and the Fate of Modernism in Republican China 254
Ralph Croizier
26 Films and Shanghai 272
Zheng Dongtian
27 The Storm Society Manifesto (October 1932) 279
Ni Yide, Pang Xunqin , et al.
Part III Latin American Modern Art 281
Introduction: Modernism in Latin America: Strategic Vanguards 283
Mary K. Coffey and Roberto Tejada
28 Our America and the West 292
Roberto Fernández Retamar
29 Strategies of Modernity in Latin America 302
Andrea Giunta
30 Revolution as Ritual: Diego Rivera's National Palace Mural 315
Leonard Folgarait
31 Africa in the Art of Latin America 330
Gerardo Mosquera
32 Vital Structures: The Constructive Nexus in South America 339
Mari Carmen Ramírez
33 Landscape: Errant Modernist Aesthetics in Brazil 353
Esther Gabara
34 The Spirit of Brasília: Modernity as Experiment and Risk 362
James Holston
35 Carmen Miranda, Grande Otelo, and the Chanchada , 1929-1949 375
Robert Stam
36 To Roosevelt 387
Rubén Darío
37 Essays on Latin American Art 391
Joaquín Torres-García
38 The Cosmic Race 402
José Vasconcelos
39 Cannibalist Manifesto 413
Oswald de Andrade
40 Brasília 424
Clarice Lispector
Credits and Sources 429
Index 434
