Behind the masks of modernism : global and transnational perspectives
Art and globalization Literature and globalization Masks in art Masks in literature Modernism (Aesthetics)
University Press of Florida
2016
EISBN 9780813051208
Rabindranath Tagore's mysterious faces and India's encounter with modernism / Aida Yuen Wong.
A pedagogy for modernity: Brazilian modernism and Heitor Villa-Lobos revisited / Sandro R. Barros.
Unmasking the journalistic aesthetics of Spanish American modernismo / Andrew Reynolds.
From pre-Columbian masks to the Basque Cromlech: the art of unconcealment through Jorge Oteiza / Elixabete Ansa Goicoechea.
The "colder artifice": Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen, and the mask of blackness / Steven A. Nardi.
The emotion as such: un/masking the poet in Mayakovsky's work / Connor Doak.
Complicity: New Zealand's modernization and the postcolonial trickster of Keri Hulme's The Bone People / Bonnie Roos.
Nyoro masquerade as a hunt for modernity: a view from a west African city / Jordan A. Fenton.
Roots reconfigured: contemporary Chinese masks in the flux of modernity / Sylvie Beaud.
Afterword: the slow burn of modernity / Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar.
This book reconsiders the meaning of modernism across the globe, stretching beyond both the Western modernist canon and the literary-heavy scope of the field to a broader cultural consideration of global modernisms and modernity. Through the use of masks as a thematic focus, the volume challenges popular assumptions about what modernism looks like, what modernity is, and how each of these ideas are produced within a historical moment.
A pedagogy for modernity: Brazilian modernism and Heitor Villa-Lobos revisited / Sandro R. Barros.
Unmasking the journalistic aesthetics of Spanish American modernismo / Andrew Reynolds.
From pre-Columbian masks to the Basque Cromlech: the art of unconcealment through Jorge Oteiza / Elixabete Ansa Goicoechea.
The "colder artifice": Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen, and the mask of blackness / Steven A. Nardi.
The emotion as such: un/masking the poet in Mayakovsky's work / Connor Doak.
Complicity: New Zealand's modernization and the postcolonial trickster of Keri Hulme's The Bone People / Bonnie Roos.
Nyoro masquerade as a hunt for modernity: a view from a west African city / Jordan A. Fenton.
Roots reconfigured: contemporary Chinese masks in the flux of modernity / Sylvie Beaud.
Afterword: the slow burn of modernity / Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar.
This book reconsiders the meaning of modernism across the globe, stretching beyond both the Western modernist canon and the literary-heavy scope of the field to a broader cultural consideration of global modernisms and modernity. Through the use of masks as a thematic focus, the volume challenges popular assumptions about what modernism looks like, what modernity is, and how each of these ideas are produced within a historical moment.
