PAINTING THE CARIBBEAN

 A symposium at the University of Essex, 6-7 May 2011

    Speakers and titles
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María Clara Bernal (Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia )
Imagining Africa in the Caribbean: The Work of Wifredo Lam and Hector Hyppolite

Judith Bettelheim (UCLA)
Cuban artists comment on Cuba

Danielle Delon (Trinidad)
A Victorian Woman’s Perspective of Trinidad: Margaret Mann and Jean Michele Cazabon

Ian Dudley (Essex)
Indigenous Guyana in the Paintings of Edward Goodall and Aubrey Williams

Louise Fenton (Wolverhampton)
Images of Haiti: The Culture and History of Haiti through the Paintings of the Houngan

Maria Cristina Fumagalli (Essex)
Painting Caribbean Modernity: Derek Walcott and the 'Academy’s Outcasts'

  Joanne Harwood (Essex)
Painting the Caribbean from Near and Afar: Armando Reverón and Ofelia Rodríguez

Evelyn O'Callaghan (UWI-Cave Hill)
Marketing Caribbean Landscapes: the Case of William Beckford of Somerley and George Robertson

Désha Osborne (Cambridge)
Image and Revolution: Brunias and the Caribs of St. Vincent

Lisa Paravisini (Vassar)
Painting Sugar Cane: Ethics and Aesthetics of a Problematic Representation

Judy Raymond (Trinidad)
The Final Passage of Richard Bridgens

Kim Robinson-Walcott (UWI-Mona)
Visual-verbal Vistas: Caribbean Writers Who Paint

Lawrence Scott (Trinidad)
Michel Jean Cazabon: Artist of the Emancipation

Leon Wainwright (Manchester Metropolitan)
Aubrey Williams and the Temporality of Painting

Anne Walmsley (London)
Beyond Painted Scene: Art in the Caribbean

Penny Woollard (Essex)
Painting Derek Walcott’s Caribbean: Romare Bearden