Description
Book SynopsisA new, updated and expanded edition of this classic survey on the history of Caribbean art, featuring the work of over 100 artists from the period of colonialism to the present day. Caribbean Art presents and discusses the diverse, fascinating and highly accomplished work of Caribbean artists, whether indigenous or from the diaspora, popular or high' culture, rural or urban based, politically radical or religious. This expanded edition has a new preface, and has been updated to reflect on recent challenges to the ideological premises and institutions of conventional art-historical practice and their connections to histories of colonialism, Eurocentricity and race. Two new chapters focus on public monuments linked to the history of the Caribbean, and the intersections between art and tourism, raising important questions about cultural representation. Featuring the work of internationally recognized artists such as Sonia Boyce, Christopher Cozier, Wifredo Lam, Ana Mendieta, E
Table of ContentsForeword
Introduction
1. Prehispanic and Colonial Art
2. Decolonization and Creative Iconoclasm
3. Modernism and Cultural Nationalism
4. Popular Culture, Religion and the Festival Arts
5. ‘Dangerously Close to Tourist Art’
6. Political Radicalism, Abstraction and Experimental Art
7. The Land, the Sea and the Environment
8. The Personal and the Political
9. The Caribbean Contemporary
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
