Veerle Poupeye's blog about art in the Caribbean and beyond
While I work on several new blog posts, here is another excerpt from my doctoral dissertation, "Between Nation and Market: Art and Society in Twentieth Century Jamaica" (Emory, 2011) - (C) Veerle Poupeye, all rights reserved. Osmond Watson was one of the key artists of the post-independence period in Jamaica. The painter and sculptor Osmond... Continue Reading →
The young Jamaican painter Kimani Beckford currently has a solo-exhibition tour project, titled Affirmation. The exhibition is shown at two venues: its inaugural display was held at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston, in space that is used for art exhibitions by the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), and has now closed. The second leg... Continue Reading →
Here is part two of a two-part excerpt from my PhD dissertation "Between National and Market: Art and Society in 20th Century Jamaica" (Emory University, 2011). The excerpt is from the Introduction. Part one can be found here. (c) Veerle Poupeye, al rights reserved Partha Chatterjee has pointed out that the challenge facing anticolonial cultural... Continue Reading →
Update May 14, 2018: This letter responded to the essay “The White Women and the Language of Bees” by Kei Miller, as originally published on the PREE website. This essay was removed from PREE, in the heat of the controversy it generated and at the author's request. It was on May 3 replaced by a ... Continue Reading →
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