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A major international collaboration between artists, art historians, curators and policy makers, this collection shows how visual art can play a crucial role in forging a more sustainable community...
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This collection sets out a range of perspectives on the challenges that the Caribbean is facing today, showing how the arts hold a crucial role in forging a more sustainable Caribbean community. It forcefully attests to the view that visual art in particular has a specific contribution to make and that this in turn means striving to foster a sustainable arts community that can contend with an environment of uneven infrastructure, opportunity and public awareness. Spanning the scholarly, artistic and professional fields of arts and heritage, this book compares two of the Caribbean’s key linguistic regions – the Anglophone and the Dutch – to address the themes of global-local relations, capital, patronage, morality, contestation, sustainability and knowledge exchange. The result is a milestone of collaboration from diverse global settings of the Caribbean and its diaspora, including Jamaica, the Bahamas, Barbados, Suriname, Curaçao, the Netherlands, UK, Germany and the US.
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Price: £85.00
Pages: 192
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 01 December 2017
ISBN: 9781526117281
Format: Hardcover
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ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), Museology and heritage studies, ART / Criticism & Theory, Theory of art, Migration, immigration and emigration
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‘[This book] brings together essays by artists, policy makers, curators, and art historians from the entire region, but places special emphasis on the Dutch Caribbean as a corrective to the usual focus on Anglophone, Francophone, and Hispanophone contexts. Mimi Sheller’s afterword reflects usefully on the various “meanings of sustainability” addressed by the contributors, and underscores “the need to cultivate locally grounded ecosystems of arts training, art institutions, and art criticism, which do not simply catapult individual artists out of the Caribbean into the global circuits of metropolitan arbiters of taste, without some kind of payback.” The beautifully reproduced color illustrations, ranging from postage-stamp size to full-page, offer excellent support to the arguments in the text.’
Richard Price and Sally Price, New West Indian Guide

Leon Wainwright is Reader in Art History at The Open University, UK

Kitty Zijlmans is Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory/World Art Studies at Leiden University

Sustainable art communities: creativity and policy in the transnational Caribbean – Leon Wainwright
Part I: Histories and theories
1 Dreams of utopia: sustaining art institutions in the transnational Caribbean – Erica Moiah James
2 Criticality and context: migrating meanings of art from the Caribbean – Therese Hadchity
3 Notes on imagining Afropea – Charl Landvreugd
Part II: Visual investigations
4 Kolonialismo di Nanzi: Anansi colonialism – Tirzo Martha
5 Art and agency in contemporary Curaçao: Tirzo Martha's Blijf Maar Plakken – Kitty Zijlmans
6 Between a rock and a hard place: local-global dynamics of funding and sponsorship in Caribbean art –Winston Kellman
7 Randnotizen: notes from the edge – Nicholas Morris
Part III: Collaborations
8 Policy entrepreneurship: expanding multimodality in Caribbean practice through Caribbean Intransit –Marielle Barrow
9 Champagne tastes and mauby pockets: towards healthy cultural eco-systems – Annalee Davis
10 Sustainable art communities: an afterword – Mimi Sheller
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