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Black modernisms in the transatlantic world


Abstract

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

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    Washington: National Gallery of Art, [2023]


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    • 9780300269772
    • 0300269773

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    Studies in the history of art. Seminars held in 2018 and 2019 at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.


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