TY - BOOK AU - Noel, Samantha A. TI - Tropical aesthetics of black modernism SN - 9781478010333 PY - 2021/// PB - Duke University Press; KW - N5300-7418 Visual Arts- History KW - Central America. N2 - In Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism, Samantha A. Noël investigates how Black Caribbean and American artists of the early twentieth century responded to and challenged colonial and other white-dominant regimes through tropicalist representation. With depictions of tropical scenery and landscapes situated throughout the African diaspora, performances staged in tropical settings ER -