Sieglinde Lemke. Primitivist Modernism: Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism. New York: Oxford UP, 1998. 183 pp. $45.00.
Sieglinde Lemke in Primitivist Modernism: Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism seeks to reevaluate the contributions of African art forms to the formation of modernism. She argues that, in effect, primitivism and modernism constitute each other, and then examines this reciprocal relationship in chapters focused on several ...