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.
Table of Contents
Introduction. Modern Art: A Global Story
Irina Costache and Clare Kunny
Prequel. Helen Gardner and Art Through the Ages, 1948: A World Panorama of Art 6
Barbara Jaffee
Part I: 1870-1920
1. Impressionism and Globalization
André Dombrowski
2. Picturing the Dead: Posthumous Portraits of Infants and Children in Turn of the Century Mexican Photography
Elisa C. Mandell
3. Art and Revival in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Kayla Rose
4. The ‘Marbelous’ Movement: 1871-1922 Victorian England
Alexander Kusztyk
5. 'On or About 1910’, London’s New Bond Street and the Global Art Market
Anne Helmreich
6. Modernism, Transnational Networks and Pan-Africanism and Early Twentieth Century African American art
Catherine Bernard
Part II: 1920-1940
7. BERLIN, BAUHAUS, BUCHAREST: RE-MAKING MODERNISM IN THE GLOBAL PERIPHERIES
Alexandra Chiriac
8. Chinese Photography Criticism and Theory in Republican China: The Cases of Lu Xun and Liu Bannong
Bruno Lessard
9. Primitive Surfaces: Elena Izcue, Peruvian Indigenism, and the Racial Politics of Modernist Ornament
Grace Kuipers
10. The Black Legend of Mexican Painting
Fabiola Martínez Rodríguez
11. Neo-Baroque Architecture and Sculpture in the Portuguese Estado Novo (1926-1974): The Genealogy of a Marginalized Concept
Ana Lourenço Pinto
Part III: 1940-1970
12. Inter-Asian cultural dialogues
Tanya Singh
13. Thomaz Farkas and Mid-century Brazilian Photographic Networks
Danielle Stewart
14. Modern Islamicate Painting, 1940-1970
Alex Dika Seggerman
15. Two Pioneering Women Bring Abstraction to the Andes
Michele Greet
16. The Global Contexts of Modern African Art: Negotiating Blackness, Modern Art and African Identities in Paris
Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie
