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The Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde: Postmodernism as Post-nationalism
The Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde: Postmodernism as Post-nationalism
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2020
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Hadchity, Therese Kaspersen
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Focusing on the Anglophone Caribbean, emThe Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde/em describes the rise and gradual consolidation of the visual arts avant-garde, which came to local and international attention in the 1990s. The book is centered on the critical and aesthetic strategies employed by this avant-garde to repudiate the previous generation's commitment to modernism and anti-colonialism. In three sections, it highlights the many converging factors, which have pushed this avant-garde to the forefront of the region's contemporary scene, and places it all in the context of growing dissatisfaction with the post-colonial state and its cultural policies./p pThis generational transition has manifested itself not only in a departure from "traditional" in favor of "new" media (i.e., installation, performance, and video rather than painting and sculpture), but also in the advancement of a "postnationalist postmodernism," which reaches for diasporic and cosmopolitan frames of reference./p pSection one outlines the features of a preceding "Creole modernism" and explains the different guises of postnationalism in the region's contemporary art. In section two, its momentum is connected to the proliferation of independent art spaces and transnational networks, which connect artists across and beyond the region and open up possibilities unavailable to earlier generations. Section three demonstrates the impact of this conceptual and organizational evolution on the selection and exhibition of Caribbean art in the metropole
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Purdue University Press - CC-BY-NC - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvs1g8k4 - 322 pages
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Art & Art History,
Latin American Studies,
History