Cosmopolitan Modernisms

"Cosmopolitan Modernisms" explores various moments in 20th-century art where the encounter between different cultures has produced something distinctive and revealing about the lived experience of modernity. Exploring different geographical regions and time periods, the nine essays in this anthology return to our contemporary moment expanding the available knowledge about modernism's cross-cultural past. Travelling from colonial India and pre-war Germany, to post-1945 Brazil, and the Caribbean and African American spaces of the black Atlantic diaspora, this unique collection re-defines the cosmopolitan as a critical aspect of the questioning attitude that artists adopted throughout the world. In this book art historians from around the globe are brought together by a critical dialogue that pushes beyond separate areas of study to arrive at a more connective approach to the history of art. Annotating Arta??s Histories series: Art history has been transformed over the past 20 years by fresh questions about the creative dynamics of cultural difference in the visual arts. The four books in the Annotating Arta??s Histories series move beyond identity-based discourse to explore key topics in modern art history from the 1890s to the 1980s as a shared narrative of art and culture now told from many different points of view. Drawing together new research by 30 internationally respected writers, the series builds upon the insights of visual culture and post-colonial studies and is essential reading for anyone interested in global perspectives on art and modernism.