Caribbean Art (World of Art) Book

Paperback. Pub Date: 1998. Pages: 224 in Publisher: Thames & Hudson Click on the Google Preview image above to the read some pages of this book! The complex and colorful world of Caribbean art reflects the region's African. European. Asian. and native heritage. Despite the ethnic. linguistic. and political diversity of Caribbean artists. there is a cultural unity in their work that distinguishes it in the larger context of North American and Latin American art. Following a discussion of the pre-Columbian and colonial eras. the author describes how pioneering national art movements in the first half of the twentieth century helped to define an indigenous aesthetic. and how revolution. anti-imperialism. and race-consciousness in the turbulent sixties and seventies affected the face of art. There is a strong relationship between Caribbean popular culture and art. and the book e...Read More