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Riding with Death - Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince (Paperback)
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Riding with Death - Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince (Paperback)
Series: Caribbean Studies Series
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On the southern end of the Grand Rue, a major thoroughfare that
runs through the center of Port-au-Prince, waits the Haitian
capital's automobile repair district. This veritable junkyard of
steel and rubber, recycled parts, old tires, and scrap metal might
seem an unlikely foundry for art. Yet, on the street's opposite end
thrives the Grand Rue Galerie, a working studio of assembled art
and sculptures wrought from the refuse. Established by artists
Andre Eugene and Jean Herard Celeur in the late 1990s, the Grand
Rue's urban environmental aesthetics-defined by motifs of machinic
urbanism, Vodou bricolage, the postprimitivist altermodern, and
performative politics--radically challenge ideas about consumption,
waste, and environmental hazards, as well as consider innovative
solutions to these problems in the midst of poverty, insufficient
social welfare, lack of access to arts, education, and basic needs.
In Riding with Death, Jana Evans Braziel explores the urban
environmental aesthetics of the Grand Rue sculptors and the
beautifully constructed sculptures they have designed from salvaged
automobile parts, rubber tires, carved wood, and other recycled
materials. Through first-person accounts and fieldwork, Braziel
constructs an urban ecological framework for understanding these
sculptures amid environmental degradation and grinding poverty.
Above all, Braziel presents Haitian artists who live on the most
challenged Caribbean island, yet who thrive as creators reinventing
refuse as art and resisting the abjection of their circumstances.
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