The Barbados National Art Gallery, The Barbados Museum & Historical Society, and AICA Southern Caribbean are pleased to welcome a special lecture by Prof. Cameron McCarthy titled The Work of Art in the Postcolonial Imagination: Notes Towards Globalizing Curriculum and Aesthetics. April 26th, 2024, 6pm The Walled Garden Theatre, Barbados Museum & Historical Society. In this lecture, Emeritus Professor Cameron McCarthy and former Director of the Global Studies in Education Division at the University of Illinois, will address the matter of the significance of postcolonial art for thinking about the challenges of modern life and the school curriculum after the pandemic. He maintains that postcolonial art is theoretical and philosophical, and a precursor to postcolonial theory and criticism. In his lecture, he will raise and discuss the following question: What theoretical and practical purchase might an evaluation of postcolonial art yield (Assuming, as he maintains, that Third World cultural forms are not simply bastardized texts of First World arrangements)? To advance this line of inquiry, he will look closely at the work of a number of postcolonial exemplars: novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, and music makers from the Global South and the periphery of the metropole.
