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Pierrot Barra with mixed media sculpture of Ogun, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 19...
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in At the Crossroads of Many Worlds: Marilyn Houlberg and Arts Patronage in Haiti
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2022
Figure 8 Pierrot Barra with mixed media sculpture of Ogun, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1998. Photograph by Marilyn Houlberg. EEPA 2012-004-2528
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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
...Elena Valdez This essay examines two prominent Dominican visual artists—Belkis Ramírez and Raquel Paiewonsky—whose work encompasses new media such as video arts, installations, and performances. By defying traditional models of pictorial and sculptural art, these artists have revolutionized...
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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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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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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 123–130.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of self as Caribbean people. Washerwoman (2018), the sculpture featured in the essay, is the product of an attempt to know our progenitors through the labor of our hands, silently working alongside theirs, across temporalities. We mourn the blurred edges of their photographs and pay homage to the mundane...
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Expectations of Catastrophe: Mario Benjamin, Commissions, and Countercontext
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 227–243.
Published: 01 November 2013
... with Polly Savage, Port-au-Prince, 1 September 2007, quoted in ibid. 20 Frantz Jacques Guyodo, interview with Polly Savage, Port-au-Prince, 3 September 2007, quoted in “The Germ of the Future? Ghetto Biennale: Port-au-Prince,” Third Text 24, no. 4 (2010): 491. 19 “Freedom!” Sculpture...
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Enslaved in Stereotype: Race and Representation in Post-Independence Jamaica
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 154–169.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of Emancipation.
My tongue-in-cheek reference in that article to the unprepossessing size of the male
member in another controversial sculpture that was temporarily placed in Emancipation
Park in 2002 appears to have infl uenced Mrs. Facey Cooper’s treatment of the matter
in her own design. Unlike...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of the white world a magical Negro culture was hailing me. Negro sculpture! I began to ush with pride. Was this our salvation? Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks I think that when any country is struggling out of colonial rule and this is a political battle as well as a human rights endeavour...
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An Interview with Laura Facey Cooper
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 125–136.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Petrina Dacres Small Axe Incorporated 2004 An Interview with Laura Facey Cooper
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aura Facey Cooper, one of Jamaica’s exceptional artists, is the creator of the most
recent public sculpture created to commemorate Emancipation, Redemption Song.
It features...
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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
... as an artist. Born in the old working-class neighbor-
hood of “Bel-Air,” the birthplace of the Vodou flag tradition (textile artifacts, with beads and
sequins sewn on by hand),4 he started off making traditional flags, but during the last decade
of his life produced a vast sculptural oeuvre, consisting...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 260–265.
Published: 01 March 2017
.... Through transgressions—between synthetic and living, sculpture and painting, artist's hand and viewer's reflection—her work brings the viewer into the process of observing at close range, teasing apart mechanisms of value and negotiating new ones. She has exhibited recently in Field Notes: Extracts...
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Resonance: The Essence of the Playing Field
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 32–42.
Published: 01 September 2004
... memory. AAlvaradolvarado
With their installation Panyard, Nicole Awai and Terry Boddie reference all of
these disparate elements and fl eeting reactions. Th eir fi ve-part work, consisting of draw-
ing, photography, sculpture, and installation, is a lingual designator of visual meaning.
Occupying...
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“But Bogle Was a Bold Man”: Vision, History, and Power for a New Jamaica
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 112–134.
Published: 01 March 2009
... without mentioning her name.
She is figured as the “mother” of modern Jamai-
can art; her iconic sculptures of the 1930s and
1940s—of the working classes...
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Monument and Meaning
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 137–153.
Published: 01 September 2004
... most resembles Christopher Gonzales’s sculpture, Man Arisen
(1966), of a nude male fi gure that emerges out of the base of the mahagony wood from
which it was carved. His head is tilted upward, eyes closed, and his entire body evinces
a tension that is sensed from the apparent...
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The Point of No Return: Wendy Nanan as Postindenture Indian Female Visionary Artist
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 68–80.
Published: 01 July 2017
... with sculptural forms through papier-mâché and bent-wire assemblage. Using found objects, she collects and builds on natural forms or invents new shapes. Martin Mouttet, curator of the Medulla Gallery in Port of Spain, sees Nanan's tactility and three-dimensionality and her method of making art as rooted...
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Everything Slackens in a Wreck
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 119–143.
Published: 01 July 2022
... and her family left Guyana for Canada. Mattai’s ebullient sari sculptures and female figures are easily recognizable and have grown especially popular among major collectors. The artists in everything slackens take a different route. Their works bear the history of Chinese and Indian migration...
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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
... Here”
The Bad and the Ugly
This commitment to representing what is frequently banished from the realm of visual images
in The Bahamas was particularly evident in many of the sculptures in the exhibition. In Anto-
nius Roberts’s wooden sculpture La Femme de Lyford Cay...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 202–204.
Published: 01 July 2014
... (CARIMAC) at the University of the West Indies, Mona. His credits as a writer and director include the 1998 feature film Babymother , a reggae musical, and We the Ragamuffin . His sound sculptures include Knots & Donuts , Tate Modern (2011), and he is coauthor of Changing the Subject (1998...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 115–122.
Published: 01 July 2016
... functional sculptural object that lives at the crossroads of the personal and the political, the worldly and the fantastical, the comedic and the deadly serious. Constructed out of several petroleum-based products, it is, in a certain respect, Ward's poignant meditation on the debate about oil and energy...
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