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Primitivist-Modernism: Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism - The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series Lemke, Sieglinde (Assistant Professor of American Studies, Assistant Professor of American Studies, University of Berlin)
Primitivist-Modernism: Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism - The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series
Lemke, Sieglinde (Assistant Professor of American Studies, Assistant Professor of American Studies, University of Berlin)
Lemke's book proffers a bold new account of the origins of modernism. By focusing upon cubism, primitivist-modernism, jazz, and Josephine Baker's performance, Lemke demonstrates that black art exerted a crucial if masked presence in both Euro-American high art and popular culture. American and European modernism each owes much of its symbolic capital to its black cultural other.
192 pages, 15 halftones, bibliography
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 25, 1998 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195104035 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 192 |
| Dimensions | 236 × 162 × 19 mm · 481 g |
| Language | English |