Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension

According to the Prices, starting in the 1970s, Bearden created 400 ink drawings, watercolor paintings, prints, book illustra- tions, collages, and other forms of mixed- media art inspired by Caribbean land- scapes and cultures. Few who follow the art market would dispute the validity of the first c...

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Published in:The journal of Latin American and Caribbean anthropology 2008, Vol.13 (1), p.263-265
Main Author: Francis, Jacqueline
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Aesthetics
African Americans
American culture
Artists
Bearden, Romare (1911-88)
Caribbean
Collage
Historical text analysis
Prices
Tourism
Visual anthropology
Watercolor painting
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Summary:According to the Prices, starting in the 1970s, Bearden created 400 ink drawings, watercolor paintings, prints, book illustra- tions, collages, and other forms of mixed- media art inspired by Caribbean land- scapes and cultures. Few who follow the art market would dispute the validity of the first charge; the second, even in the ab- sence of an illustrative example in the Pric- es' text, merits consideration, for, as art historian Krista A. Thompson has argued recently, in many U.S. citizens' minds the Caribbean typically serves as a resolutely tropical and exotic space of play. (St. Martin's southern territory is controlled by The Netherlands.) Over the next decades, the Beardens witnessed rapid transformations on St. Martin: its population grew from 10,000 in 1970 to about 80,000 in 1988, and self-sustaining agricultural land was bought up for hotel and resort construction.
ISSN:1935-4932
1935-4940
DOI:10.1111/j.1548-7180.2008.00010_19.x