The Making of a Caribbean Avant-Garde: Postmodernism as Post-nationalism
English
By (author): Therese Kaspersen Hadchity
This generational transition has manifested itself not only in a departure from traditional in favor of new media (i.e., installation, performance, and video rather than painting and sculpture), but also in the advancement of a postnationalist postmodernism, which reaches for diasporic and cosmopolitan frames of reference.
Section one outlines the features of a preceding Creole modernism and explains the different guises of postnationalism in the region's contemporary art. In section two, momentum is connected to the proliferation of independent art spaces and transnational networks, which connect artists across and beyond the region and open up possibilities unavailable to earlier generations. Section three demonstrates the impact of this conceptual and organizational evolution on the selection and exhibition of Caribbean art in the metropole. The contemporary art scene? See more