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Oversized Paperback. Condición: 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.…

Soft cover. Condición: Good. This book represents some of the very best of graduates of Jamaica's Art School, now called the School of Visual Arts. It highlights in words and pictures, the achievements of a number of its leading graduates from Jamaica and the Caribbean. 208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. Cover has been laminated, slight shelf wear and creasing to edges, previous owner's name has been inked over on half-title page, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.…