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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 94–104.
Published: 01 October 2008
... the past two decades, situating developments in their socioeconomic and political context and considering them in relation to the international art trade. Central to the study is the work of Mario Benjamin, Maxence Denis, and Edouard Duval Carrié, but sections of the article are also devoted to women...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 28–46.
Published: 01 March 2021
... in the context of black civilian internment—for both the artist-prisoner and the researcher. © Small Axe, Inc. 2021 Suriname World War II black prisoners internment art photography Buried in the storage facility of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in suburban Washington, DC...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 113–124.
Published: 01 November 2013
... by exploring some of the modes of intracultural translation used by the authors of the créolité movement but focuses on Ina Césaire's novel Zonzon tête carrée , where cultural difference is downplayed in favor of another approach to translation developed from an internal Caribbean perspective. Even though Ina...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 100–118.
Published: 01 September 2004
... and profi t-driven reality of the Venice biennial created a complex backdrop to the event. Great art often transcends nationalism, yet geographically packaged pavilions at major international venues like the Venice biennial are an important part of the contem- porary art world. Th is mode...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): v–x.
Published: 01 September 2004
... issue tackle these questions both historically and in the contemporary context, and the artworks represent the work of a younger set of image- makers struggling for visibility in Caribbean and international art arenas. Th e essays examine how Caribbean artists in the region and its diaspora have...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 208–210.
Published: 01 July 2020
... in galleries, at art fairs, and in museums, including the Fototeca de Cuba; Foto Fest, Houston; International Art Fair, Arco, Spain; Havana Biennial; the Patricia Conde Gallery, Mexico City; and KyotoGraphie, Kyoto. His works are also held in private and public collec- tions, including those of the Museo...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 34–42.
Published: 01 March 2017
... at the informal level. The trend for Caribbean art exhibitions in international spaces also continued with Infinite Island , curated by Tumelo Mosaka (New York; 2007–08); Kreyol Factory and Latitudes , curated by Régine Cuzin (France; 2009); Rockstone and Bootheel , curated by Kristina Newman-Scott...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 165–174.
Published: 01 October 2008
... a few of them higher relief than I was able to in the book. I would also like to continue, in the format of the present essay, to place the art of Duval Carrié into a larger con- text, while also talking about the pressure on him from the international art market circuit. In many ways Duval...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 96–116.
Published: 01 July 2011
... Tabaski feast of sacri- fice.27 Removing his work from the main venue of the art fair, Hammons implored the crowd of international art critics, collectors, and artists to venture out of their comfort zones to observe and participate in this performance that, like his Bliz-aard Ball Sale, questioned...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 164–184.
Published: 01 July 2009
... program at the Jamaica School of Art (now the Edna Manley College) in 1962, the establish- ment of the National Gallery of Jamaica in 1974, and the emergence of the first commercial galleries and private collections, such as A. D. Scott’s Olympia International Art Centre...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 213–227.
Published: 01 July 2012
... black British arts professional worried, “What a lot of black North American artists are doing is vacuuming up ideas and theories … that get played out over here in the UK, then packaging them with glossy production values for the international art markets.” 13 But where Isaac Julien's film Looking...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 263–280.
Published: 01 March 2013
... York: Alternative Center for International Arts, 1977), n.p. 26 Colin Westerbeck, The James VanDerZee Studio (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2004), 15. 27 Richard J. Powell, Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 62. 28...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 151–164.
Published: 01 October 2008
... this can be. Both Middelanis and Sullivan allude to questions of modernity in Haitian art and the parallel question of what happens to a local art when it enters the international art market. This is bound up with questions of individuality and universality, of local cultures and interna- tional...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 119–143.
Published: 01 March 2012
... of the Centre d’art in the 1940s, and the growing recognition in international art circles of painters such as Hector Hippolyte and later Wilson Bigaud. But this cultural and artistic renaissance was relatively 24 See Abbott, Haiti: The Duvaliers and Their Legacy. 25 Michael S. Laguerre, Voodoo...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 255–273.
Published: 01 July 2013
... Mercer, “Black Atlantic Abstraction: Aubrey Williams and Frank Bowling,” in Kobena Mercer, ed., Discrepant Abstraction , Annotating Art's Histories: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in the Visual Arts (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; London: Institute of International Visual Arts, 2006). 2 Oxford English...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 119–137.
Published: 01 June 2007
... abstract expressionist art pieces were featured in the exhibition. While this form of representation has been produced in the international art world since the 1950s, it is especially prescient in the local art environment of The Bahamas. In many respects abstract expressionist work...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 134–154.
Published: 01 November 2011
... the early twentieth cen- tury were composed of little more than colored pieces of cloth stitched together with no further ornamentation. But later in the century, as flags became a commodity in the international art market, they grew heavier with sequins and appliquéd frou-frou...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 124–149.
Published: 01 September 2005
... of the vèvèè were transitory and foreshadowed later international art movements, which include the work of Ana Mendieta, a Cuban artist 40. Maurice Denis, “Defi nition of Neotradition” (1890), cited in Th e Penguin Book of Art Writingg, ed. Martin 146 Gayford and Karen Wright (London...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 227–243.
Published: 01 November 2013
.... It is therefore important to consider, Why has Haitian art become a more attractive feature, and After Shock a more compelling artwork, for an international news corporation when seen as a direct response to local catastrophe? Ultimately, we must ask whether such a prominent space for the dissemination...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 167–176.
Published: 01 July 2015
... at a moment when Caribbean artists are enjoying tremendous international exhibition and acquisition opportunities through curation, residencies, and art dealing in North America, at international biennales, and in the recently expanded art infrastructure of uber-art gallery and museum spaces in metropolitan...