The Black Art Renaissance: African Sculpture and Modernism Across Continents

by Joshua I. Cohen

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 n gre , or "black art"--eventually came to affect...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520309685
• ISBN13: 9780520309685
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 10.2"