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Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism (Paperback)
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Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism (Paperback)
Series: The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas
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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 "tropical aesthetics"-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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