Tropical aesthetics of black modernism
by Samantha A. Noël
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"Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism considers how Caribbean and American artists of the early twentieth century are responding to the colonial and hegemonic regimes through visual and performative tropicalist representation. By proposing an alternative understanding of the tropics, this book demonstrates how Aaron Douglas, Wifredo Lam, Josephine Baker, Maya Angelou, and some masqueraders and designers of Trinidad Carnival effectively contributed to the development of Black modernity, and even Black sonic modernity. Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism aspires to broaden the epistemological reaches of the discipline of art history by acknowledging the interdisciplinarity inherent in the study of creative production of any kind"--
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Black Art, Themes, motives, African American artists, Caribbean Art, In art, ArtPlaces
Caribbean Area, TropicsTimes
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Tropical aesthetics of black modernism
2021, Duke University Press
in English
1478010339 9781478010333
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