Primitivist modernism : black culture and the origins of transatlantic modernism / Sieglinde Lemke.
This book explores a rich cultural hybridity at the heart of transatlantic modernism. Focusing on cubism, jazz, and Josephine Baker's performance in the Danse Sauvage, Sieglinde Lemke uncovers a crucial history of white and black intercultural exchange, a phenomenon until now greatly obscured b...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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| Series: | W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Series)
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | This book explores a rich cultural hybridity at the heart of transatlantic modernism. Focusing on cubism, jazz, and Josephine Baker's performance in the Danse Sauvage, Sieglinde Lemke uncovers a crucial history of white and black intercultural exchange, a phenomenon until now greatly obscured by a cloak of whiteness. Considering artists and critics such as Picasso, Alain Locke, Nancy Cunard, and Paul Whiteman, in addition to Baker, Lemke documents a potent cultural dialectic in which black artistic expression fertilized white modernism, just as white art forms helped shape the black modernism. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (183 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1602566380 9781602566385 9780195104035 019510403X |