Derek Walcott’s Painters : : A Life with Pictures / / Maria Cristina Fumagalli.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023
• VerfasserIn: Fumagalli, Maria Cristina,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures : ECSALC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (504 p.) :; 61 colour illustrations

First book devoted to Derek Walcott’s lifelong engagement with the Atlantic visual artsBringing together local, Atlantic and global dimensions and putting in dialogue and contextualising Walcott’s work with the works of specific artists, it retraces Walcott’s unique, empowering, but utterly neglected ‘art history’ Brings to the fore the importance and reverberations of interdisciplinary dialogues in the Atlantic world and in decolonising discourses and processesSheds new light on the ways in which Walcott conjugated his engagement with the European, North/South American and African American traditions, envisaged their relationship with Caribbean culture and redefined the role he believed the latter should and could play on an Atlantic and global scaleIs mindful of Walcott’s attention to painting techniques but, most importantly, foregrounds his keen interest in the multiple narratives" that the visual works he was confronting not only explicitly revealed but also implicitly suggestedHighlights the attention Walcott paid to the circumstances and ‘locations’ of his encounters with the works in question (i.e. local settings, metropolitan museums and artbooks).Walcott’s lifelong concern with painting and painters deeply inflected his aesthetics and politics. Walcott’s interventions on the relationship between Caribbean and colonial history have been thoroughly scrutinised, but, arguably, Walcott was also keen to address and (re)write an art history “of which,” paraphrasing a line from Omeros, the Caribbean “too” was/is “capable”. Contextualising and putting in conversation Walcott’s published and unpublished writings (poems, plays, essays, journalism) and his drawings or paintings (privately owned and publicly disseminated) with specific artists from the Caribbean, Europe, South and North America, Derek Walcott’s Painters recalibrates and sharpens our understanding of Walcott’s articulation of his own politics and poetics and of the Caribbean’s contributions to Atlantic and global culture. "

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Series Editors’ Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 A Brief History of a Vocation in (about) Fifteen Objects -- Chapter 2 Atelier des Tropiques: The Local Scene -- Chapter 3 Voyages to Cythera and the European Legacy -- Chapter 4 American Visions I – Frescoes of the New World and Black America -- Chapter 5 American Visions II – Black Odysseys -- Chapter 6 Painting (and) the Caribbean: The Awe of the Ordinary and the Search for Anonymity -- Chapter 7 Poems ‘Out Of’ Paintings: Towards an Ekphrasis of Relation -- Farewell -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index to Derek Walcott’s Archival Material