Modern Art in Africa, Asia and Latin America

Elaine O'Brien is a Professor of Modern & Contemporary Art at California State University, Sacramento.
 
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.

Shedding fresh light on modern art beyond the West, this text introduces readers to artists, art movements, debates and theoretical positions of the modern era that continue to shape contemporary art worldwide. Area histories of modern art are repositioned and interconnected towards a global art historiography.
* Provides a much-needed corrective to the Eurocentric historiography of modern art, offering a more worldly and expanded view than any existing modern art survey
* Brings together a selection of major essays and historical documents from a wide range of sources
* Section introductions, critical essays, and documents provide the relevant contextual and historiographical material, link the selections together, and guide the reader through the key theoretical positions and debates
* Offers a useful tool for students and scholars with little or no prior knowledge of non-Western modernisms
* Includes many contrasting voices in its documents and essays, encouraging reader response and lively classroom discussion
* Includes a selection of major essays and historical documents addressing not only painting and sculpture but photography, film and architecture as well.

Shedding fresh light on modern art beyond the West, this text introduces readers to artists, art movements, debates and theoretical positions of the modern era that continue to shape contemporary art worldwide. Area histories of modern art are repositioned and interconnected towards a global art historiography.

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