
The Black Art Renaissance
African Sculpture and Modernism across Continents
Joshua I. Cohen(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 4. August 2020
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-520-30968-5 (ISBN)
Description
Reading African art's impact on modernism as an international phenomenon, The "Black Art" Renaissance tracks a series of twentieth-century engagements with canonical African sculpture by European, African American, and sub-Saharan African artists and theorists. Notwithstanding its occurrence during the benighted colonial period, the Paris avant-garde "discovery" of African sculpture-known then as art negre, or "black art"-eventually came to affect nascent Afro-modernisms, whose artists and critics commandeered visual and rhetorical uses of the same sculptural canon and the same term. Within this trajectory, "black art" evolved as a framework for asserting control over appropriative practices introduced by Europeans, and it helped forge alliances by redefining concepts of humanism, race, and civilization. From the Fauves and Picasso to the Harlem Renaissance, and from the work of South African artist Ernest Mancoba to the imagery of Negritude and the Ecole de Dakar, African sculpture's influence proved transcontinental in scope and significance. Through this extensively researched study, Joshua I. Cohen argues that art history's alleged centers and margins must be conceived as interconnected and mutually informing. The "Black Art" Renaissance reveals just how much modern art has owed to African art on a global scale.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
83 color images, 18 b-w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 262 mm
Width: 192 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
1037 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-30968-5 (9780520309685)
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Person
Joshua I. Cohen is Assistant Professor of Art History at The City College of New York. His writing has appeared in The Art Bulletin, African Arts, Journal of Black Studies, Wasafiri, and other publications.
Content
Prologue
Acknowledgments
Note on Terms
Introduction
1. Rethinking Fauve "Primitivism"
2. Picasso's African Infl uences
3. Harlem Renaissance and Diaspora
4. Mancoba between Paradigms
5. Art Negre and the Ecole de Dakar
Epilogue: Was Picasso "Black"?
Archive Abbreviations
Notes
Selected Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index
Acknowledgments
Note on Terms
Introduction
1. Rethinking Fauve "Primitivism"
2. Picasso's African Infl uences
3. Harlem Renaissance and Diaspora
4. Mancoba between Paradigms
5. Art Negre and the Ecole de Dakar
Epilogue: Was Picasso "Black"?
Archive Abbreviations
Notes
Selected Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index