Cosmopolitan modernisms / edited by Kobena Mercer.
Contributor(s): Mercer, Kobena
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BookSeries: Annotating art's histories.Publisher: London : Cambridge, Mass. : Institute of International Visual Arts ; MIT Press, c2005Description: 208 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0262633213 (MIT Press); 1899846417 (inIVA).Subject(s): Art and globalization -- History -- 20th century | Multiculturalism in art | Modernism (Art) -- Cross-cultural studiesDDC classification: 306.470945 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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Moments of crisis and innovation in modernism's cross-cultural past, from the reception of modernist art in colonial India to the experience of African American artists in the New York art world of the 1950s.
This first book in the Annotating Art's Histories series revisits the period in which modernist attitudes took shape, examining the ways in which a shared history of art and ideas was experienced in different nations and cultures. Original essays by leading art historians and curators trace the dynamic interplay of cultures across the story of modern art, looking at moments of crisis and innovation in modernism's cross-cultural past. An account of colonialism and nationalism in Indian art from the 1890s to the 1920s, for example, suggests that cultural identities are constantly modifying one another in the very moment of their encounter and points to primitivism as a counter-discourse to modernism. A collision between modernism and colonialism in the design of a Bauhaus model housing project reveals the volatile conditions of European modernism in the 1930s. Discussions of the abstract painting of Norman Lewis and the collages of Romare Bearden illustrate the conflicted experiences and multiple affiliations of African American artists in the New York art world of the 1940s and 1950s. The first English translation of an influential essay in the Brazilian neoconcrete movement of the 1950s takes up concerns similar to those of North American minimalism in the 1960s. These and the other journeys into modernism's past described in Cosmopolitan Modernisms return to our contemporary moment with questions about modern art and modernity that we are only beginning to ask. Copublished with inIVA/Institute of International Visual Arts, London.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 192-203).
Introduction -- Reflections on modern art and national identity in colonial India : an interview / Partha Mitter -- White walls, white skins : cosmopolitanism and colonialism in inter-war modernist architecture / Paul Overy -- Surrealism faced with cultural difference / Michael Richardson -- The post-modern modernism of Wifredo Lam / Lowery Stokes Sims -- Norman Lewis : 'how to get black' / Ann Eden Gibson -- Romare Bearden, 1964 : Collage as Kunstwollen / Kobena Mercer -- CLR James as critical theorist of modernist art / David Craven -- Neoconcretism and minimalism : on Ferreira Gullar's theory of the non-object / Michael Asbury.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction (p. 6)
- Reflections on Modern Art and National Identity in Colonial India: An Interview (p. 24)
- White Walls, White Skins: Cosmopolitanism and Colonialism in Inter-war Modernist Architecture (p. 50)
- Surrealism Faced with Cultural Difference (p. 68)
- The Post-modern Modernism of Wifredo Lam (p. 86)
- Norman Lewis: 'How to Get Black' (p. 102)
- Romare Bearden, 1964: Collage as Kunstwollen (p. 124)
- C.L.R. James as a Critical Theorist of Modernist Art (p. 146)
- Neoconcretism and Minimalism: On Ferreira Gullar's Theory of the Non-Object (p. 168)
- List of Illustrations (p. 190)
- Select Bibliography (p. 192)
- Biographies (p. 204)
- Acknowledgements (p. 208)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Kobena Mercer is a writer and critic living in London. He is the editor of Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures, Cosmopolitan Modernisms, and Discrepant Abstraction (all published by The MIT Press and inIVA), author of Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies, and an inaugural recipient of the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing, presented by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.Kobena Mercer is a writer and critic living in London. He is the editor of Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures, Cosmopolitan Modernisms, and Discrepant Abstraction (all published by The MIT Press and inIVA), author of Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies, and an inaugural recipient of the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing, presented by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
Kobena Mercer is a writer and critic living in London. He is the editor of Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures, Cosmopolitan Modernisms, and Discrepant Abstraction (all published by The MIT Press and inIVA), author of Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies, and an inaugural recipient of the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing, presented by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.