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Reading African art's impact on modernism as an international phenomenon, *The "Black Art" Renaissance* tracks a series of twentieth-century engagements with canonical African sculpture by European, African American, and sub-Saharan African artists and theorists. Notwithstanding its occurrence during the benighted colonial period, the Paris avant-garde "discovery" of African sculpture - known then as *art nègre*, or "black art" - eventually came to affect nascent Afro-modernisms, whose artists and critics commandeered visual and rhetorical uses of the same sculptural canon and the same term. Within this trajectory, "black art" evolved as a framework for asserting control over appropriative practices introduced by Europeans, and it helped forge alliances by redefining concepts of humanism, race, and civilization. From the Fauves and Picasso to the Harlem Renaissance, and from the work of South African artist Ernest Mancoba to the imagery of Negritude and the Ecole de Dakar, African sculpture's influence proved transcontinental in scope and significance. Through this extensively researched study, Joshua I. Cohen argues that art history's alleged centers and margins must be conceived as interconnected and mutually informing. *The "Black Art" Renaissance* reveals just how much modern art has owed to African art on a global scale.

Art styles --- Sculpture --- sculpture [visual works] --- influence --- primitivism [artistic concept] --- African sculpture styles --- Harlem Renaissance --- Mid-Century Modernist --- Neo-Expressionist --- #breakthecanon --- Picasso, Pablo --- Mancoba, Ernest --- anno 1900-1999

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Sculpture --- Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- sculpture [visual works] --- life masks --- Lwena --- African sculpture styles --- Songye --- Tshokwe --- beeldhouwkunst --- Angola --- Art, Black --- Ethnic art --- Exhibitions --- 73 <673> --- Art, Ethnic --- Art --- Ethnic groups --- Minorities --- Indigenous art --- Black art --- Negro art --- 73 <673> Beeldhouwkunst. Sculptuur--Angola --- Beeldhouwkunst. Sculptuur--Angola --- Art, Black - Angola - Exhibitions --- Ethnic art - Angola - Exhibitions