Sustainable Art Communities

Contemporary Creativity and Policy in the Transnational Caribbean

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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This collection sets out a range of perspectives on the challenges that the Caribbean is facing today, showing how the arts hold a crucial role in forging a more sustainable Caribbean community. It forcefully attests to the view that visual art in particular has a specific contribution to make and that this in turn means striving to foster a sustainable arts community that can contend with an environment of uneven infrastructure, opportunity and public awareness. Spanning the scholarly, artistic and professional fields of arts and heritage, this book compares two of the Caribbean’s key linguistic regions – the Anglophone and the Dutch – to address the themes of global-local relations, capital, patronage, morality, contestation, sustainability and knowledge exchange. The result is a milestone of collaboration from diverse global settings of the Caribbean and its diaspora, including Jamaica, the Bahamas, Barbados, Suriname, Curaçao, the Netherlands, UK, Germany and the US.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-12-01
Mått170 x 240 x 17 mm
Vikt614 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor192
FörlagManchester University Press
ISBN9781526117281

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Sustainable art communities: creativity and policy in the transnational Caribbean – Leon WainwrightPart I: Histories and theories1 Dreams of utopia: sustaining art institutions in the transnational Caribbean – Erica Moiah James2 Criticality and context: migrating meanings of art from the Caribbean – Therese Hadchity3 Notes on imagining Afropea – Charl LandvreugdPart II: Visual investigations4 Kolonialismo di Nanzi: Anansi colonialism – Tirzo Martha5 Art and agency in contemporary Curaçao: Tirzo Martha's Blijf Maar Plakken – Kitty Zijlmans6 Between a rock and a hard place: local-global dynamics of funding and sponsorship in Caribbean art –Winston Kellman 7 Randnotizen: notes from the edge – Nicholas MorrisPart III: Collaborations8 Policy entrepreneurship: expanding multimodality in Caribbean practice through Caribbean Intransit –Marielle Barrow9 Champagne tastes and mauby pockets: towards healthy cultural eco-systems – Annalee Davis10 Sustainable art communities: an afterword – Mimi ShellerIndex

‘[This book] brings together essays by artists, policy makers, curators, and art historians from the entire region, but places special emphasis on the Dutch Caribbean as a corrective to the usual focus on Anglophone, Francophone, and Hispanophone contexts. Mimi Sheller’s afterword reflects usefully on the various “meanings of sustainability” addressed by the contributors, and underscores “the need to cultivate locally grounded ecosystems of arts training, art institutions, and art criticism, which do not simply catapult individual artists out of the Caribbean into the global circuits of metropolitan arbiters of taste, without some kind of payback.” The beautifully reproduced color illustrations, ranging from postage-stamp size to full-page, offer excellent support to the arguments in the text.’Richard Price and Sally Price, New West Indian Guide