"Modern Primitive: Parody, Ambivalence, and Paradox in Paul Colin's Le Tumulte Noir"

This thesis analyzes Paul Colin’s 1927 portfolio of lithographs entitled Le Tumulte Noir as an expression of the simultaneously progressive, celebratory, racist, and colonialist ideas about jazz music, dance, and blackness in Paris during the 1920s. Because the portfolio often demonstrates conflict...

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Main Author: Monroe, Julia Boyette
Format: Others
Published: VCU Scholars Compass 2014
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Online Access:http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/624
http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1623&context=etd