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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. University of California Press, 2003. Book has light rubbing to covers, used stickers to bottom part of spine, bends and curling to outer bottom cover corner and a small grouping of pages, modest scuffs and light bends to edges and tips of corners. otherwise in very good condition, strong binding, clean and unmarked interiors; some cosmetic wear but an overall sturdy reading copy.…

Oversized Paperback. Condizione: Good. While the narrative of modernism has often excluded artists and intellectuals of African descent, this publication demonstrates that they have been cemtral to the formation of modernity and modern art. Leading critics and artists from Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas examine aspects of this notion , 'the Black Atlantic', coined by British academic Paul Gilroy in the early 19i90s, to describe the hybrid cultures that have arisen as a result of the dispersal of black peoples. This overview encompasses a wide range of movements and ideas from the 'negrohilia' of 1920s Paris, to the Harlem Renaissance, and 'Negritude', and on to current contemporary art. With extension illustrations, a chronology of key figures and events and an extensive bibliography. With a List of Works, Contributors' profiles. 223p.…