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The Act of Painting
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 143–147.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Ras Akyem-i Ramsay Small Axe Inc. 2009 The Act of Painting
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Horse-men and Chariots (detail), 2003. Acrylic and collage on canvas, diptych, 12 x 10 ft. National Art Collection, Barbados.
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The Interior Life of Painting: Lebenswelt and Subjectivity in the Work of Roberta Stoddart
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 139–152.
Published: 01 July 2012
... and shared subjectivity mediated through history and grounded in consciousness and the transcendent. Through a discussion of Husserl's Lebenswelt, or lifeworld, Gabrielle Hezekiah explores Stoddart's journey of reflection and transformation as it is evidenced in her paintings, showing that the thematization...
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Published: 01 July 2024
Figure 1 Natalie Wood, Oui Matis , 2024. Multimedia painting, 36 × 48 in.
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Nonsynchronous Cartographies: Frank Bowling's Map Paintings
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 255–273.
Published: 01 July 2013
... of things,” how is “catastrophe” embedded in Bowling's approach to abstraction? 2 The so-called map paintings produced during the same period as Bowling's writings for Arts Magazine offer a rich field of inquiry in this regard. Cartographic outlines of South America, Guyana, Africa, and Australia haunt...
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in Community Building through Creative Placemaking in Bristol, England
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Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 2 Michele Curtis, The Honourable Owen Henry , 2016. Spray paint on exterior wall, Bristol. Photograph by Jazz Thompson
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in Community Building through Creative Placemaking in Bristol, England
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Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 1 Michele Curtis, Roy Hackett , 2019. Spray paint on exterior wall, Bristol. Photograph by Olumedia
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in Community Building through Creative Placemaking in Bristol, England
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 3 Michele Curtis, Dolores Campbell , 2018. Spray paint on exterior wall, Bristol. Photograph by Jazz Thompson
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in Community Building through Creative Placemaking in Bristol, England
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 4 Michele Curtis, Carmen Beckford, MBE , 2019. Spray paint on exterior wall, Bristol. Photograph by Jazz Thompson
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Making History Visible: Caribbean Artist Josef Nassy’s Visual Diary of Nazi Internment
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 28–46.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Sarah Phillips Casteel While interned by the Nazis in Belgium and Bavaria during World War II, the little-known Surinamese artist Josef Nassy (1904–76) created a series of paintings and drawings documenting his experiences and those of other black prisoners. Nassy’s artworks uniquely register...
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Alternate Coda: Looking for Other Writers
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 188–194.
Published: 01 November 2024
...-Charles enriches her readings by evoking earlier works like those by Poujol Oriol, highlighting the continuities between twentieth-century works by Haitian women and those produced by the authors of her corpus. The nonliterary cultural productions included by Jean-Charles—songs, paintings, photographs...
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“Black Man Time Now”: Race, Class, and Culture in 1970s-based Jamaican Fiction
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 77–96.
Published: 01 March 2019
... a selection of (semi)autobiographical 1970s-based literary works such as Anthony C. Winkler’s Going Home to Teach , Brian Meeks’s Paint the Town Red , and Margaret Cezair-Thompson’s The True History of Paradise (and interweaving Shara McCallum’s This Strange Land ), this essay examines some shortcomings...
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Bodies of Color: Images of Women in the Works of Firelei Báez and Rachelle Mozman
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 57–69.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Rocío Aranda-Alvarado This essay explores the photographic and film work of New York–born artist Rachelle Mozman (of Panamanian heritage) and the paintings and drawings of Dominican-born artist Firelei Báez. Both artists make use of the form, the image, the representation, and the reading...
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Writing the Feminine: The Representation of Women in Contemporary Dominican Visual Art
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 126–140.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the Dominican art scene both thematically and technically. While Ramírez creates installations that include wood carving, xylography, and paint, Paiewonsky often combines textile design and sewing with other artistic media technologies, excelling at photography. Despite the diverse old and new materials...
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Baby on the Blender: A Visual History of Catastrophe in Haiti
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 134–154.
Published: 01 November 2011
.... Cosentino particularly focuses on the paintings of Edouard Duval-Carrié, the bricolage of Pierrot Barra and Marie Cassaise, the beaded tableaux of Rudy Azor and Myrlande Constant, and the postapocalyptic sculptures of a collective of contemporary Haitian artists who call themselves Atis rezistans. © Small...
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“No Abstract Art Here”: The Problem of the Visual in Contemporary Anglo-Caribbean Art
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 119–137.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Krista A. Thompson Some critics contend that the visual language of abstraction or conceptual art cannot translate “Caribbeanness.” This essay considers the work of several contemporary Caribbean artists who highlight how the “picturesque” paintings so favored by detractors were historically...
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Contemporary Art as Cultural Product in the Context of Haiti
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 94–104.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Barbara Prézeau-Stephenson This article focuses on the visual arts in contemporary Haiti, providing a rare insight into the current creative context. Countering a customary focus on history painting and Vodou-inspired or magical realist work, it explores the evolution of artistic production over...
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The Continental Conversations of Edouard Duval Carrié
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 142–150.
Published: 01 October 2008
... features the art of Duval Carrié, whose oeuvre moves beyond the simply, flat, “primitive” styles associated with Haitian art to idiosyncratic installations, paintings, and sculptures that speak to the powerful visual and cultural elements of contemporary Haitian art. ©2008 Small Axe Incorporated. All...
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On Reading Continental Shifts and Considering the Works of Edouard Duval Carrié
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 151–164.
Published: 01 October 2008
...LeGrace Benson With his painting and sculpture, Duval Carrié creates mise-en-scène in which viewers become vicarious participants in four acts of the transatlantic drama of violation of sovereignties and identities: act 1, the destruction of the Caribbean environment and its indigenous people; act...
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Roger Turton, Unfinished Pictures: A Prelude
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 53–70.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Mark Raymond In the ten years before his death in 1996, the Trinidadian architect Roger Turton produced a prolific body of work. Turton's projects evolved out of a passionate exploration of the relationship between architecture and painting, which began while he was a student at the Architectural...
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Oozing between Dimensions: Multiple Perspectives on the Real in the Works of Nicole Awai
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 43–56.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Caribbean art perception the real female body painting In a work from Trinidadian-born artist Nicole Awai's years-long series of drawings Specimens from Local Ephemera (2003–11), a conjoined female figure looks through two holes as two screws hover menacingly behind her (see fig. 1 ). 1...
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