03048nam 2200721Ia 450 991045009730332120200520144314.01-280-45254-41-4237-3459-90-19-534454-51-60256-638-0(CKB)1000000000033361(EBL)241505(OCoLC)559885383(SSID)ssj0000227096(PQKBManifestationID)11185963(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000227096(PQKBWorkID)10263667(PQKB)11721180(MiAaPQ)EBC4702660(MiAaPQ)EBC241505(Au-PeEL)EBL241505(CaPaEBR)ebr10086769(CaONFJC)MIL45254(EXLCZ)99100000000003336119970115d1998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPrimitivist modernism[electronic resource] black culture and the origins of transatlantic modernism /Sieglinde LemkeNew York Oxford University Press19981 online resource (192 p.)W.E.B. DuBois InstituteDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-510403-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Introduction: Was Modernism Passing?; 1 Studies in Black and White; 2 Picasso's ""Dusty Manikins""; 3 Whiteman's Jazz; 4 The Black Body; 5 The Black Book; Conclusion: Modernism Reconsidered; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZThis 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 W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Series)Modernism (Art)EuropeArts, EuropeanModernism (Art)United StatesArts, AmericanArts, BlackInfluenceAfrican American artsInfluenceElectronic books.Modernism (Art)Arts, European.Modernism (Art)Arts, American.Arts, BlackInfluence.African American artsInfluence.700/.4112/08996Lemke Sieglinde989543MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450097303321Primitivist modernism2263281UNINA