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Everlyn Nicodemus is an artist and writer living and working in Edinburgh, UK, and holds a Ph.D. from Middlesex University, London.
Melissa Chiu is Museum Director and Vice President, Global Art Programs, Asia Society in New York.
Benjamin Genocchio is editor in chief of Art & Auction Magazine, New York. He holds a Ph.D. in art history and is the author and editor of six books.
Mary K. Coffey is Associate Professor of Art History at Dartmouth College.
Roberto Tejada is Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History, Southern Methodist University.
Acknowledgments xi
General Introduction: The Location of Modern Art 1Elaine O’Brien
Part I African Modern Art 15
Introduction: African Modern Art: An Ongoing Project 17Everlyn Nicodemus
1 Modern African Art 26Chika Okeke
2 From Country to City: The Development of an Urban Art 39Steven Sack
3 Nomfanekiso Who Paints at Night: The Art of Gladys Mgudlandlu 45Elza Miles
4 Negritude, Pan-Africanism, and Postcolonial African Identity: African Portrait Photography 49Okwui Enwezor and Octavio Zaya
5 A Critical Presence: Drum Magazine in Context 58Okwui Enwezor
6 Art of the African Diaspora 63Michael D. Harris
7 Chorale: Man, Society, and Technology: An Experiment in Rural Egypt 73Hassan Fathy
8 Oral Tradition and the Aesthetics of Black African Cinema 79Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike
9 On National Culture 87Frantz Fanon
10 Discourse on Colonialism 89Aimé Césaire
11 Natural Synthesis 91Uche Okeke
12 A Historic Confrontation between Jean Rouch and Ousmane Sembène in 1965: “You Look at Us as if We Were Insects” 94Jean Rouch and Ousmane Sembène
Part II Asian Modern Art: India, Japan, China 99
Introduction: Asian Modern Art: A Case of Alternative, Parallel, and Intersecting Modernisms 101Melissa Chiu and Benjamin Genocchio
13 Multiculturalism/Multimodernism 106Jim Supangkat
14 Negotiating Modernities: Encounters with Cubism in Asian Art 120Ahmad Mashadi
Section 1 India 129
15 When Was Modernism in Indian Art? 129Geeta Kapur
16 The Formalist Prelude 138Partha Mitter
17 E. B. Havell and Rabindranath Tagore: Nationalism, Modernity and Art 150Osman Jamal
18 Art and Tradition 160Rabindranath Tagore
Section 2 Japan 165
19 Western Style Painting in Japan: Mimesis, Individualism, and Japanese Nationhood 165Gennifer Weisenfeld
20 Artistic Subjectivity in the Taish? and Early Sh?wa Avant-Garde 181John Clark
21 The Age of Modernism: From Visualization to Socialization 193Joe Takeba
22 The Architectural Profession in Japan, 1850–1930 209Jonathan M. Reynolds
23 Dangen wa Dadaisuto 228Takahashi Shinkichi
Section 3 China 231
24 Sketch Conceptualism as Modernist Contingency 231Eugene Y. Wang
25 Post-Impressionists in Pre-War Shanghai: The Juelanshe (Storm Society) and the Fate of Modernism in Republican China 254Ralph Croizier
26 Films and Shanghai 272Zheng Dongtian
27 The Storm Society Manifesto (October 1932) 279Ni Yide, Pang Xunqin , et al.
Part III Latin American Modern Art 281
Introduction: Modernism in Latin America: Strategic Vanguards 283Mary K. Coffey and Roberto Tejada
28 Our America and the West 292Roberto Fernández Retamar
29 Strategies of Modernity in Latin America 302Andrea Giunta
30 Revolution as Ritual: Diego Rivera’s National Palace Mural 315Leonard Folgarait
31 Africa in the Art of Latin America 330Gerardo Mosquera
32 Vital Structures: The Constructive Nexus in South America 339Mari Carmen Ramírez
33 Landscape: Errant Modernist Aesthetics in Brazil 353Esther Gabara
34 The Spirit of Brasília: Modernity as Experiment and Risk 362James Holston
35 Carmen Miranda, Grande Otelo, and the Chanchada , 1929–1949 375Robert Stam
36 To Roosevelt 387Rubén Darío
37 Essays on Latin American Art 391Joaquín Torres-García
38 The Cosmic Race 402José Vasconcelos
39 Cannibalist Manifesto 413Oswald de Andrade
40 Brasília 424Clarice Lispector
Credits and Sources 429
Index 434
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