Research Catalog

Title

Black modernisms in the transatlantic world / edited by Steven Nelson and Huey Copeland ; contributors Adrienne Edwards, Simon Gikandi [and seven others].

Publication

• Washington : National Gallery of Art, [2023]
• New Haven ; London : Yale University Press
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Edwards, Adrienne (Art critic)
• Gikandi, Simon
• Nelson, Steven, 1962-
• Copeland, Huey

Description

vii, 255 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm.

Summary

"Illustrated essays that broaden our understanding of modernism by centering Black artists and experiences, with a contribution featuring the work of Venice Biennale Golden Lion winner Simone Leigh. In this volume, ten leading scholars examine the contradictions of modernity and Black agency that continue to define the Western art world. Illustrated essays explore the work of artists such as Roy DeCarava, Ben Enwonwu, James Hampton, Norman Lewis, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Augusta Savage, and Carrie Mae Weems, always with an eye toward reframing our understanding of Black artistic producers. The interdisciplinary avenues of inquiry remake the boundaries of modernist art - its notions time and again focused on the singular white male European or American artist - with another set of imperatives, ethics, and histories, broadening our understanding of the past and present of modernism." --

Series Statement

Seminar Papers / Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts ; 4

Uniform Title

Seminar papers (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.)) ; 4.

Subject

• Artists, Black > Congresses
• Artists, Black > Themes, motives > Congresses
• African American artists > Congresses
• Black people in art > Congresses
• Art, Modern > Themes, motives > Congresses
• African American artists
• Art, Modern > Themes, motives
• Artists, Black
• Black people in art
• Themes, motives
• Art, Modern
• United States

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Studies in the history of art Symposiums 2018 and 2019, Washington, D.C.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: a troubled conjuncture / Huey Copeland and Steven Nelson -- Simone Leigh: acts of transformation / Steven Nelson -- Leave no mark: Blackness and inscription in the inquisitorial archive / Matthew Francis Rarey -- Bare feet, or, the ambivalence of emancipation: Camille Pissarro and the Caribbean / C. C. Mckee -- On European modernism and Black being / Simon Gikandi -- Nancy Elizabeth Prophet and Augusta Savage: Sculptural habits of Black modernism / Kellie Jones -- Numinous affect in Black Atlantic modernisms / Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie -- Darkness and the unvisible: Norman Lewis, Roy Decarava, and postwar abstraction / Kobena Mercer -- At the threshold of withholding: Stanley Brouwn's modernist repetitions / Adrienne Edwards -- Spaces in the shadows: archives and architectures in the work of Carrie Mae Weems / Mabel O. Wilson.

Call Number

Sc F 23-500

ISBN

• 9780300269772
• 0300269773

LCCN

2022951435

OCLC

1371425899

Title

Black modernisms in the transatlantic world / edited by Steven Nelson and Huey Copeland ; contributors Adrienne Edwards, Simon Gikandi [and seven others].

Publisher

Washington : National Gallery of Art, [2023]

Distributor

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Seminar Papers / Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts ; 4

Seminar papers (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.)) ; 4.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Edwards, Adrienne (Art critic), author.

Gikandi, Simon, author.

Nelson, Steven, 1962- editor. Editor

Copeland, Huey, editor. Editor

Research Call Number

Sc F 23-500