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Patchwork - Essays & Interviews on Caribbean Visual Culture (Paperback, New edition)
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Patchwork - Essays & Interviews on Caribbean Visual Culture (Paperback, New edition)
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The patchwork is an apt metaphor for the region not only because of
its colourfulness and the making of something whole out of
fragments but as an attempt to make coherence out of disorder. The
seeking of coherence was the exact process of putting together this
book and foregrounds the process of Caribbean societies forging
identity and identities out of plural and at times conflicting and
contested groups that came to call the region home. Within the
metaphor of the patchwork however is the question, where are the
vernacular needlework artists within the visual art tradition of
the Caribbean? The introduction sets out to both clarify and
rectify this situation, and several common themes flow through the
following essays and interviews. Themes include that that the land
and colonization remain baseline issues for several Caribbean
artists who stage and restage the history of conquest and empire in
varying ways. That artists in the region amalgamate as part of
their practice and seem to prefer an open-endedness to art making
as opposed to expressing fidelity to a particular medium. That
artists and scholars alike are dismantling long-held perceptions of
what Caribbean art is thought to be, and are challenging boundaries
in Caribbean art. These are among the issues addressed in the book
as it looks at ecological concerns and questions of sustainability,
how the practices of the artists and their art defy the easy
categorization of the region, and the placement of women in the
visual art ecology of the Caribbean. The latter is one of the most
contested areas of the book. Readers should come away with the
sense that questions of race, colour, and class loom large within
questions of gender in the Jamaican art scene and that the book,
dedicated to Sane Mae Dunkley, aims to insert vernacular
needleworkers into the visual art scene in both Jamaica and the
larger Caribbean. Audience will include researchers and scholars of
Caribbean and African diasporic art, college students, those
interested in post-colonial studies, Caribbean artists, art
professionals interested in a wider, globalized view of
contemporary art; students curious to know about the many phases of
art production throughout the Caribbean. General readers interested
in the culture of the region.
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