Global Modern Art - Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa

This accessible, foundational volume explores how modern art developed around the world by comparing contexts and artistic production in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa from circa 1850 through the 1960s.

List of contents

Introduction: The Coming Together of the World: Modern Conditions, Many Modernisms, and Common Themes 1. Modern Models: Modern Art in Europe, ca.1850-1914 2. Balancing Order and Chaos: European Art around the World Wars 3. Internationalism and Isolationism: Modern Identities in the US and Canada 4. Between Internationalism and Indigenism: Modern Art in Latin America 5. Colonial Modernities in South and Southeast Asia and the Pacific 6. Defensive Modernities in Thailand and East Asia 7. Modernity's Complexities in West Asia and North Africa 8. Paradoxical Modernities in Sub-Saharan Africa

About the author

Margaret Richardson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Fine Art and Art History at Christopher Newport University.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret A. Richardson, Margaret A. (Christopher Newport Unive Richardson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 29.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032406794
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3240679-4
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Globalization, Theory of art, ART / History / General, Anthropology, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, History of Art, Political Economy, Politics and government, Colonialism and imperialism, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, ART / Movements / Modernism