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Joshua I. Cohen

The Black Art Renaissance

African Sculpture and Modernism across Continents

Joshua I. Cohen

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University of California Press
04 August 2020
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Reading African art’s impact on modernism as an international phenomenon, The “Black Art” Renaissance tracks a series of twentieth-century engagements with canonical African sculpture by European, African American, and sub-Saharan African artists and theorists. Notwithstanding its occurrence during the benighted colonial period, the Paris avant-garde “discovery” of African sculpture—known then as art nègre, or “black art”—eventually came to affect nascent Afro-modernisms, whose artists and critics commandeered visual and rhetorical uses of the same sculptural canon and the same term. Within this trajectory, “black art” evolved as a framework for asserting control over appropriative practices introduced by Europeans, and it helped forge alliances by redefining concepts of humanism, race, and civilization. From the Fauves and Picasso to the Harlem Renaissance, and from the work of South African artist Ernest Mancoba to the imagery of Negritude and the École de Dakar, African sculpture’s influence proved transcontinental in scope and significance. Through this extensively researched study, Joshua I. Cohen argues that art history’s alleged centers and margins must be conceived as interconnected and mutually informing. The “Black Art” Renaissance reveals just how much modern art has owed to African art on a global scale.
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Imprint:   University of California Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 254mm,  Width: 178mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   1.043kg
ISBN:   9780520309685
ISBN 10:   0520309685
Pages:   304
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Prologue  Acknowledgments  Note on Terms  Introduction  1. Rethinking Fauve “Primitivism”  2. Picasso’s African Infl uences  3. Harlem Renaissance and Diaspora  4. Mancoba between Paradigms  5. Art Nègre and the École de Dakar  Epilogue: Was Picasso “Black”?  Archive Abbreviations  Notes  Selected Bibliography  List of Illustrations  Index 

Joshua I. Cohen is Assistant Professor of Art History at The City College of New York. His writing has appeared in The Art Bulletin, African Arts, Journal of Black Studies, Wasafiri, and other publications.

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