ABSTRACT

Diversifying the current art historical scholarship, this edited volume presents the untold story of modern art by exposing global voices and perspectives excluded from the privileged and uncontested narrative of “isms.”

This volume tells a worldwide story of art with expanded historical narratives of modernism. The chapters reflect on a wide range of issues, topics, and themes that have been marginalized or outright excluded from the canon of modern art. The goal of this book is to be a starting point for understanding modern art as a broad and inclusive field of study. The topics examine diverse formal expressions, innovative conceptual approaches, and various media used by artists around the world and forcefully acknowledge the connections between art, historical circumstances, political environments, and social issues such as gender, race, and social justice.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, imperial and colonial history, modernism, and globalization.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

Modern Art: A Global Story

chapter |10 pages

Prequel. Helen Gardner and Art Through the Ages, 1948

A World Panorama of Art

part I|75 pages

1870–1920

chapter 2|13 pages

Picturing the Dead

Posthumous Portraits of Infants and Children in Turn-of-the-Century Mexican Photography

chapter 4|12 pages

The "Marbelous" Movement

1871–1922 Victorian England

part II|59 pages

1920–1940

chapter 7|13 pages

Berlin, Bauhaus, Bucharest

Re-Making Modernism in the Global Peripheries 1

chapter 8|9 pages

Chinese Photography Criticism and Theory in Republican China

The Cases of Lu Xun and Liu Bannong

chapter 9|13 pages

Primitive Surfaces

Elena Izcue, Peruvian Indigenism, and the Racial Politics of Modernist Ornament

chapter 11|11 pages

Neo-Baroque Architecture and Sculpture in the Portuguese Estado Novo (1926–1974)

The Genealogy of a Marginalized Concept

part III|70 pages

1940–1970

chapter 12|12 pages

Inter-Asian Cultural Dialogues

chapter 16|13 pages

The Global Contexts of Modern African Art

Negotiating Blackness, Modern Art, and African Identities in Paris

chapter 17|5 pages

A Full Embrace of the Global in Modern Art

International Exhibitions and the Re-writing of Art History

chapter |1 pages

Conclusion