The brand new ebook Création plastique d’Haïti. Artwork et tradition visuelle en colonie et postcolonie, by Carlo A. Célius, is now on the cabinets! This ebook opens the launch of Amérique(s)—a brand new collection by Éditions Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH). [Many thanks to Thomas Spear for bringing this item to our attention.]
Description: This ebook research the universe of visible creation in Haiti over time, for the reason that arrival, in 1492, of the primary Spanish conquerors on this territory, the western third of the island which that they had renamed Hispaniola. To conduct his investigation, Carlo A. Célius questions, goes past, and reverses the discourses and representations expressed from Western Europe, which have constantly certified and categorized all non-European creative creation utilizing standards particular to the Nice Arts area.
The historical past of the modes of figuration proposed right here can also be that of the monopolization, exploitation, and transformation of a territory, a historical past of migrations, in addition to the subjection and extermination of populations. It’s a story of struggles, liberation, and societal reconfigurations, a historical past of photographs and imaginations, and of their exchanges and their confrontations.
On this long-term historic exploration—which borrows in flip from the historical past of artwork, aesthetics, anthropology, and sociology—the creator gives us a plural method to figuration within the colony and publish colony, which, past solely the tremendous arts, considers a continuum of visible tradition. From portraits to Vodoun ritual drawings and Catholic iconography, from illustrations printed within the press to scarification marks on the our bodies of enslaved African captives, this examine highlights the complexity and challenges of the visible, the conflicts that it generates, and the phenomena of appropriation and reappropriation.
Carlo A. Célius is a historian and artwork historian, CNRS analysis director at IMAF (l’Institut des mondes africains). His analysis focuses primarily on Saint-Domingue / Haiti and explores visible creation and tradition, from the colonial interval to the current day, in addition to the historical past of ethnology. Carlo A. Célius is the creator of Langage plastique et Énonciation identitaire. L’invention de l’artwork haïtien (Presses de l’Université Laval, 2007) and he has coordinated a number of collective publications.
The America(s) assortment goals to encourage unique work on the broader space of the Americas within the fields of human and social sciences. The gathering is dedicated to the interpretation of necessary works which might be lacking within the area of Francophone research.
Création plastique d’Haïti. Artwork et tradition visuelle en colonie et postcolonie 33 € 582 pages | 18 × 27 cm 978-2-7351-2864-8
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