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What Times Are These? Visual Art and Social Crisis in Postcolonial Jamaica

Veerle Poupeye
Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 164–184.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3697154
Published: 01 July 2009
...Veerle Poupeye This essay reflects on how social unrest and violence are responded to in the mainstream visual arts of postcolonial Jamaica. The focus is on two particular moments of crisis: the social unrest and political violence during the Michael Manley administration in the 1970s...
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Writing the Feminine: The Representation of Women in Contemporary Dominican Visual Art

Elena Valdez
Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 126–140.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3844295
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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Memory and the Contemporary Visual Arts of the Francophone Caribbean

Dominique Brebion
Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 105–114.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2009-032
Published: 01 November 2009
... Visual Arts of the Francophone Caribbean Dominique Brebion For the Caribbean artist, there is perhaps no theme more persistent and compelling than that of memory. In the francophone Caribbean, before the emergence of a truly engaged visual art tradition in the late 1970s, intellectuals...
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Stuart Hall and the Visual Arts

Kobena Mercer
Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 78–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2873350
Published: 01 March 2015
...Kobena Mercer Contrary to the view that Stuart Hall's involvement in the visual arts was a supplement to his work in cultural studies and political analysis, this reflection addresses key continuities that connect his 1970s writings on racism and the media with the enlivening impact that the hybrid...
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“No Abstract Art Here”: The Problem of the Visual in Contemporary Anglo-Caribbean Art

Krista A. Thompson
Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 119–137.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-11-2-119
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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“Black Skin, Blue Eyes”: Visualizing Blackness in Jamaican Art, 1922-1944

Krista A. Thompson
Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 1–31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-8-2-1
Published: 01 September 2004
...Krista A. Thompson Small Axe Incorporated 2004 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Black Skin, Blue Eyes : Visualizing Blackness in Jamaican Art, 1922 1944 Krista A. Thompson From the opposite end...
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Contemporary Art of the Hispanophone Caribbean Islands in an Archipelagic Framework

Tatiana Flores, Michelle Stephens
Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 80–99.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3726878
Published: 01 November 2016
...Tatiana Flores; Michelle Stephens This essay argues for an archipelagic approach to the twenty-first-century visual arts of the insular Caribbean. While it is common for scholars to stress the region's heterogeneity, the authors seek out thematic continuities in the art of the Caribbean islands...
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Timings, Canon, and Art History

Roshini Kempadoo
Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 167–176.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3139298
Published: 01 July 2015
... for the range of artists as the subjects of the book. She discusses “timing” and temporality as the central narrative for Wainwright in researching Caribbean art as transnational and comments on the implications and limitations of the publication in addressing the complexity of contemporary Caribbean visual art...
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What Is an Island? Caribbean Studies and the Contemporary Visual Artist

Michelle Stephens
Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 8–26.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2323292
Published: 01 July 2013
...Michelle Stephens This essay explores the visual arts for models of an archipelagic way of thinking that is endemic to the Caribbean and yet obscured by nationalist frameworks. Unpacking the ways Caribbean studies is imbricated within and articulated through a number of discourses—area studies...
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Expectations of Catastrophe: Mario Benjamin, Commissions, and Countercontext

Wendy Asquith
Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 227–243.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2379027
Published: 01 November 2013
...Wendy Asquith As has recently been observed by Matthew J. Smith, “It is a peculiar feature of Haitian historiography that increased production of new literature often follows national crisis.” A parallel pattern has been evident in Haitian visual arts, yet this has not always been at the impulse...
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A Caribbean Coast Feeling: On Black Central American Women’s Landscape Portraiture

Melanie White
Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 15–31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10899302
Published: 01 November 2023
...’ landscape portraiture against the historical backdrops of colonialism, territorial dispossession, and autonomous struggle in the isthmus. Understanding the political and the cultural as inextricably intertwined, this essay reads their place-based visual art as a critical form of anticolonial critique...
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From Mythologies to Realities: The Iconography of Ras Daniel Heartman

Ama
Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 66–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-11-2-66
Published: 01 June 2007
..., Ras Daniel's work parallels that aesthetic in the visual arts. Small Axe Incorporated 2007 From Mythologies to Realities: The Iconography of Ras Daniel Heartman Ama Ab s t r a c t : Few Jamaican visual artists have been able to capture the quintessence of Jamaican identity...
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Making History Visible: Caribbean Artist Josef Nassy’s Visual Diary of Nazi Internment

Sarah Phillips Casteel
Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 28–46.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8912768
Published: 01 March 2021
... enable an unremembered history to enter our field of vision, thereby generating an alternative wartime narrative. After tracing Nassy’s family history in Suriname and the conditions of his European incarceration, this essay discusses two paintings that demonstrate the significance of visual art...
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Contemporary Art as Cultural Product in the Context of Haiti

Barbara Prézeau-Stephenson
Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 94–104.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-3_27-94
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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Everything Slackens in a Wreck

Andil Gosine
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 119–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901696
Published: 01 July 2022
...Andil Gosine This is a curatorial essay in which the author explains his research and process for the conception and production of everything slackens in a wreck , a visual arts exhibition running at the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York from June to September 2022. Gosine elaborates his thinking...
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Kitchen Table Talk: Richard Fung and Ian Harnarine in Conversation

Andil Gosine
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 123–134.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156834
Published: 01 July 2017
...Andil Gosine In March 2016, a group of artists and scholars met at York University in Toronto to consider visual arts produced by indenture-descendant creators. Among them were filmmakers Richard Fung and Ian Harnarine, who engaged in a dialogue about their work and responded to inquiries posed...
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The Archive and the Repertoire in Roshini Kempadoo's Ghosting

Marta Fernández Campa
Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 110–125.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3844283
Published: 01 March 2017
... and the diaspora have examined processes of archiving. The use of archival material within Caribbean visual arts tends to point toward revisionary practice at the interstices of the past and present. Artworks such as Hew Locke's Share (2011) and Holly Bynoe's Compounds (2009) demonstrate the malleability...
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Gazing Outward and Looking Back: Configuring Caribbean Visual Culture

Roshini Kempadoo
Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 136–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2323364
Published: 01 July 2013
... and particularly for conceiving of Caribbean visual culture. It considers ways the exploration of Caribbean art practices and research of Caribbean visual culture might require reconsideration as global and interconnected structures requiring a transnational and intercultural approach. Insight of contemporary...
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After Indenture

Andil Gosine
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 63–67.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156774
Published: 01 July 2017
...Andil Gosine This essay introduces the special section “Art After Indenture,” in which five scholars characterize and respond to eight contemporary visual artists who are descendants of indentured workers. The author also raises questions about the commemoration of indentureship and calls...
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Introduction: Art as Caribbean Feminist Practice

Annalee Davis, Joscelyn Gardner, Erica Moiah James, Jerry Philogene
Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 34–42.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3844046
Published: 01 March 2017
..., and formal boundaries. Through diverse written and visual contributions, the section presents the Caribbean as a critical space that recognizes an existing foundation yet facilitates and expands conversations between artists and writers who have shaped and are shaping local and global art discourses using...
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