Search Results for Haitian painting

... of fractured yet imaginative Creole communiqués have a counterpart in the paintings, sculptures, and collages of the Haitian-born, Paris-based artist Hervé Télémaque (b. 1937). After studying in the mid-1950s at the Centre d’Art in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Télémaque moved to New York City, where he attended...

... model, and a poster for the documentary Fifty Years of My Art, about Jones’s half century of painting. A pho- tograph of her late husband, the Haitian graphic Cheryl Finley...

... Scott s painting with contemporary photographs that appeared in National Geographic, which often featured an extended foreground dense with people and activity emphasizing the overwhelming disorder of Haitian markets. 17 I draw here on the elaboration given the term entanglement by various scholars...

... to an insurrection in progress to sets of eyes expressing horror, terror, or surprise. Through these images, the cultural life of the lowly implement is given the most dramatic range of fillips. [email protected] © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 Haitian Revolution Caribbean history...

... with African complicity after the start of the Haitian Revolution, advertises in the trade in his determination to represent the Africans for sale. The other, from just after Haitian “King of Dahomey,” as he insists it “wasn’t simply independence in January 1804, demands an end a European and American...

... work, Untitled ly spirited images disrupted the circu• ing (Puerto Rican American mother, (Boxer), shares many of the aforemen• lation of the room and indeed the Haitian American father); the short, tioned qualities, which Basquiat often...

... of death Abramovich’s mega-­yacht threw its shadow down and fertility in Haitian vodun, not a new post-­ over Geminiani’s unassuming installation on the tragic motif. Geminiani can be credited with not- Rive dei Sette Martiri. The sculptures, represent- ing the particular relevance of these works...

... the sanitized version of Haitian folklore presented for tourists or the structural order within Haitian culture that ethnographic insight promised to reveal. The articles in this issue are arranged broadly chronologically. The first text by Emily Burns focuses on the representation of African Americans...

... theme and an receptivity to impromptu per• sights, sounds, and feel of the bustling city of Dakar. Through a formance including Cosentino's "Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou" life-size reproduction of the original 1913 photograph and then and Drewal and Mason's "Beads, Body...

... was relatively He seems to link these horrors to the case of unchecked in popular cartoons like Tom and Jerry Haitian immigrant, Abner Louima, who was and Walt Disney features. African American sodomized by the New York City police with a middle-class leaders like W. E. B. DuBois...

... the past and a living presence; and the problem slavery were evoked through the stories of tobacco, of historical representation is how to represent that sugar, cotton, coffee, and cowries. We also discussed ghost, something that is and yet is not,” says Haitian relationships between gender...

... 1946 Martiniquaise etching studies for an edition of Baudelaire s 1857 Les Fleurs du Mals (posed by Haitian-born Carmen Lahens), examine this premise in depth. Hung next to a Matisse collage, a single collage by Romare Bearden (Patchwork Quilt, 1970) il- lustrates the unique, modern, cultural hybridity...

... and Diaspora,” his various heritages, and synthesiz- the intimacy and speed associated in Identity: Community, Culture, Difference, ed. ing different heterogeneous cultural with the Beat literary style as well as Jonathan Rutherford (London: Walsh and Wishart, strands—African, Haitian, European...

...-Prince, Haiti on January 12 of that same year. A natural disaster vastly compounded by geopolitical injustice, the earthquake lives on and reverberates within the imaginaries of artists from Haiti and across the Haitian diaspora in their trembling visions of the mysteries of death and afterlives. Better...

.... In Mama Legba (2011) Colomba draws on the religious themes of Haitian voudun, refiguring Papa Legba, the interlocutor, intermediary, and voice of God, as a woman...

... white, it represents racial ambiguity that we might consider in shades of grey or in superficial skin terms as "browning," "high colored," or "yalla." Like Baudelaire's "Venus Noire," based on his romance with his Haitian mixed-race mistress Jeanne Duval, exoticism carries with it a sense...

... components add a striking decora- René Depestre wrote about Haitian voodoo gods and tive element to each painting, a property Senghor Birago Diop’s “Spirits” warned about the existence of considered uniquely African. Calling rhythm “the ancestors after death.7 In these works, familial and architecture...

...- of African diasporic mysticism, much in the same graphic, and motorcycle magazines. The decision to way that practitioners of Cuban Santería, Brazilian use these sources for her collages implies an inher- Candomblé, and Haitian vodun have syncretized ent critique of the materials themselves, as most...

... America) and spiritual approaches are intertwined within Haitian concepts. Through the use of intense hues, the artist invests the energies that colors release in contact with one another their reverberation to invite us to move beyond historical brutality while not erasing those events and their impact...

... society adorned objects ranging articulating the commanding stance and elaborate from Toussaint L’Ouverture’s coat buttons during costume of the central figure, including the rich the time of the Haitian Revolution to modern tourist dress, turban, and jewels. The materials, styles, and products...