Noel Samantha A. Noel

Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism, Samantha A. Noel investigates how Black Caribbean and American artists of the early twentieth century responded to and challenged colonial and other white-dominant regimes through tropicalist representation. With depictions of tropical scenery and landscapes situated throughout the African diaspora, performances staged in tropical settings, and bodily expressions of tropicality during Carnival, artists such as Aaron Douglas, Wifredo Lam, Josephine Baker, and Maya Angelou developed what Noel calls "e;tropical aesthetics"e;-using art to name and reclaim spaces of Black sovereignty. As a unifying element in the Caribbean modern art movement and the Harlem Renaissance, tropical aesthetics became a way for visual artists and performers to express their sense of belonging to and rootedness in a place. Tropical aesthetics, Noel contends, became central to these artists' identities and creative processes while enabling them to craft alternative Black diasporic histories. In outlining the centrality of tropical aesthetics in the artistic and cultural practices of Black modernist art, Noel recasts understandings of African diasporic art.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478012894
• Artikelnr.: 66282813

Autorenporträt

Samantha A. Noël is Assistant Professor in Art History at Wayne State University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. Tropicality, Modernity, and the African Diaspora  1
1. American Tropical Modernism: The African Diasporic Reaches of Aaron
Douglas's Landscapes  23
2. Brazenly Avant-Garde: Wifredo Lam's Transformation of Cuba's Tropical
Terrain  60
3. Early Twentieth-Century Trinidad Carnival: Tropicality and Strategies of
Space-Making  96
4. Pan-African Geographies in Motion: The Tropical Performances of Maya
Angelou and Josephine Baker  142
Conclusion. The Black Body, Tropicality, and the Black Speculative  177
Notes  195
Bibliography  221
Index  237