Primitivist-Modernism: Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism (The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Primitivist-Modernism: Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism (The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series) Book

Primitivist-Modernism : Hardback : Oxford University Press Inc : 9780195104035 : 019510403X : 25 Jun 1998 : Lemke's book proffers a bold new account of the origins of modernism. By focusing upon cubism, primitivist-modernism, jazz, and Josephine Baker's performance, Lemke demonstrates that black art exerted a crucial if masked presence in both Euro-American high art and popular culture. American and European modernism each owes much of its symbolic capital to its black cultural other.Read More

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    This book offers a bold new account of modernism. By focusing on cubism, primitivist-modernism, jazz, and Josephine Baker's performance, Lemke demonstrates that black art exerted a crucial if masked presence in both Euro-American high art and popular culture. American and European modernism owe much of their symbolic capital to the black cultural other. Black American artists, for their part, also relied on Euro-American American models. By reappropriating European primitivist-modernism, they invented a sui generis black modernism.

  • 019510403X
  • 9780195104035
  • Sieglinde Lemke
  • 25 June 1998
  • OUP USA
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 192
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