306 Pages
by
Routledge
306 Pages
by
Routledge
From the late 1910s through the 1950s, particularly, the Caribbean nation of Haiti drew the attention and imaginations of many key U.S. artists, yet curiously, while significant studies have been published on Haiti's history and inter-American exchanges, none analyze visual representations with any depth. The author calls not only on the methodologies of art history, but also on the... Read more
Contents: Prologue: thoughts of Haiti; Presenting the taming of Haiti: National Geographic magazine and the U.S. occupation; Illustrating The Emperor Jones; Imagining a black magic island; ’Creative ethnographers’ document Haiti; Vernacularizing Haiti’s revolutionary history; Marketing Haiti: tourism, the art market, and icons of Haiti; Selected bibliography; Index.
Biography
Lindsay J. Twa is Associate Professor of Art and Director, Eide/Dalrymple Gallery at Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD, USA.
'Lindsay J. Twa’s Visualizing Haiti in U.S. Culture, 1910-1950 offers the most thorough examination yet written of Haiti’s representation in visual media that circulated in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. Twa’s monograph dexterously spans many disciplines to survey cultural production as diverse as Aaron Douglas’s illustration and painting, Katherine Dunham’s choreography and dance, Alexander King’s photojournalism and illustration, Paul Robeson’s acting, Maya Deren’s filmmaking, and William Edouard Scott’s painting ...' CAA Reviews
