Primitivist-Modernism - Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism

Zusatztext Lemke makes a valuable contribution to understanding the impact of black culture on European and American modernism....It is indeed welcome to find a study of this subject that embraces artists and theorists of both the Harlem Renaissance and the European avant-garde. Notable for its command of source materials and recent scholarship alike, Primitivist Modernism opens avenues for further research on interculturalism and modernity. Klappentext Insisting on modernism's two-way cultural flow! Lemke demonstrates not only that white modernism owes much of its symbolic capital to the black Other! but that black modernism built itself in part on white Euro-American models. Through readings of individual texts and images (fifteen examples of which are reproduced in this volume)! Lemke reforms our understanding of modernism. She shows us that transatlantic modernism in both its high and popular modes was significantly more diverse than commonly supposed. Students and scholars of modernism! African American studies! and cultural studies! and those with interests in twentieth-century art! dance! music! or literature! will find this book rewarding. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Sieglinde Lemke, Sieglinde (Assistant Professor of American Lemke, Lemke Sieglinde
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.1998
• EAN: 9780195104035
• ISBN: 978-0-19-510403-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series; W.E.B. DuBois Institute; The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Ethnic Studies, The arts: general issues, ART / History / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Black & Asian Studies, The arts: general topics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General