Research Catalog

Title

Transmodern : an art history of contact, 1920-60 / Christian Kravagna ; translated by Jennifer Taylor.

Author

Kravagna, Christian

Publication

• Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

Taylor, Jennifer (Translator)

Description

xiv, 282 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm.

Summary

"How can we reconfigure our picture of modern art after the postcolonial turn without simply adding regional art histories to the Eurocentric canon? Transmodern examines the global dimension of modern art by tracing the crossroads of different modernisms in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Featuring case studies in Indian modernism, the Harlem Renaissance and post-war abstraction, it demonstrates the significance of transcultural contacts between artists from both sides of the colonial divide. The book argues for the need to study non-western avant-gardes and Black avant-gardes within the west as transmodern counter-currents to mainstream modernism. It situates transcultural art practices from the 1920s to the 1960s within the framework of anti-colonial movements and in relation to contemporary transcultural thinking that challenged colonial concepts of race and culture with notions of syncretism and hybridity." -- Amazon

Series Statement

Rethinking Art's Histories

Uniform Title

• Transmoderne. English
• Rethinking art's histories.

Alternative Title

Transmoderne.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Postcolonialism and the arts
• Cultural pluralism in art
• Art, Modern > 20th century
• Art, Modern

Note

• Originally published as "Transmoderne: eine Kunstgeschichte des Kontakts" by b_books, 2017
• Translated from German.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-275) and index.

Contents

Towards a postcolonial art history of contact -- In the shade of tall mango trees: art education and transcultural modernism in the context of the Indian independence movement -- Transcultural beginnings: decolonisation, transculturalism,and the overcoming of race -- Trees of knowledge: anthropology, art, and politics. Melville J. Herskovits and Zora Neale Hurston -- The migrant as catalyst: Winold Reiss and the Harlem Renaissance -- Encounters with masks: counter-primitivisms in Black modernism -- Purity of art in a transcultural age: modernist art theory and the culture of decolonisation -- Painting the global history of art: Hale Woodruff's The Art of the Negro.

Call Number

Sc E 23-610

ISBN

• 9781526160362
• 1526160366

OCLC

1287923158

Author

Kravagna, Christian, author.

Title

Transmodern : an art history of contact, 1920-60 / Christian Kravagna ; translated by Jennifer Taylor.

Publisher

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Rethinking Art's Histories

Rethinking art's histories.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-275) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Taylor, Jennifer (Translator), translator.

Research Call Number

Sc E 23-610