The Barbados National Art Gallery, The Barbados Museum & Historical Society and AICA Southern Caribbean are delighted to invite you to a talk by Prof. Edward J. Sullivan titled The Caribbean: Landscapes of Desire
Event details
October 25th, 2024
6pm AST
The Walled Garden Theatre, The Barbados Museum & Historical Society
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The Talk
This talk will consider one of the principal themes of Caribbean art throughout the past four centuries. Landscape is one of the connecting threads throughout the archipelago and the Caribbean mainland. Artists in the early phases of colonization employed images of a peaceful place as metaphors for possibilities of financial investment on the part of Europeans. 19th century artists, both those from the region and from beyond, were loath to face the scourge of enslavement in their depictions of plantation life. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, an era of liberation from the yoke of European domination, landscape was employed as the quintessential symbol of a new identity. More recently, artists have expanded the meanings of landscape to question the past, the present, and ruminate on the future in this present time of climate crisis. This lecture brings into play a wide variety of visual artists, examining their differences and similarities in order to suggest a “Caribbean-ness” or sense of shared space and experience in visual expression through the interpretation of the earth.
The Speaker
Edward J. Sullivan is the Helen Gould Shepherd Professor in the history of art at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. His fields of specialization include hemispheric arts, with a particular focus on the Caribbean and Latin America. He is the author of many volumes that examine the history of art in the region from colonial times to the present. He is also active as a curator and has organized many exhibitions in museums and cultural spaces in the United States, Latin America and Europe.
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