Timed Out: Art and the Transnational Caribbean (Rethinking Art's Histories) - Hardcover

Leon Wainwright

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719084849 ISBN 13: 9780719084843

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2011

Synopsis

'Timed out' is a pioneering study of modern and contemporary art in the aftermath of empire. It addresses the current 'global turn' in the study of art by way of the transnational Caribbean, offering an in-depth account of the Atlantic world in relation to the mainstream history of art. It looks at why art of the Anglophone Caribbean and its diaspora have been placed not only 'outside' but 'behind' the dominant art canons, and how the politics of space and time can be used to rethink the global geography of art. This is an essential addition to the growing field of 'world art studies', bringing concerns around temporality together with cross-cultural issues and debates. It shows how art and artists of the Caribbean have encountered and challenged the charges of belatedness, anachronism, provincialism and marginalisation that are fundamental to the time-space logic of art history. Wainwright shows the Caribbean to be a vantage point for rethinking the core issues and practices of art history. He explores the interconnections of art in Europe, North America and the Caribbean, redrawing the map of centre and periphery in modern and contemporary art. The focus falls on abstract expressionism, Pop art, the significance of race and ethnicity, 'Black art', art policy and cultural diversity, multiculturalism, migration and diaspora, and new directions in curating and criticism.

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Review:

"Theoretical literature on Caribbean art is rare, which is why any book that is published on the topic deserves particular attention." - Claudia Hucke Claudia Hucke, Lecturer, Department of Art History, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Kingston, Jamaica, CAA Reviews, August 2016

About the Author:

Leon Wainwright is Lecturer in Art History at the Open University

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0719084849
• ISBN 13: 9780719084843
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208