Overview
The Haitian capital at the intersections of history, music, politics, religion, magic, architecture, art and literature Published after a landmark 2018 exhibition at Pioneer Works—the first major survey of the astonishing artists of Haiti’s capital city—Pòtoprens is at once a portrait of a place, a celebration of its arts and a visionary re-mapping of culture in the world’s first Black republic. In this volume, Port-au-Prince's complex present is evoked through artworks, images, oral histories and essays. These contents are organized, as was the exhibition, around neighborhoods identified with particular subjects, materials and forms. Contextualized by leading writers on Caribbean culture, these artists’ stories are situated within Port-au-Prince’s rich heritage of “majority class art.” As cities everywhere grow ever more critical to our changing global environment, this book articulates urban Haiti’s unbroken link with its revolutionary past.
Full Product Details
Author: Leah Gordon ,
Leah Gordon ,
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro ,
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Publisher: Pioneer Works
Imprint: Pioneer Works
Dimensions:
Width: 22.90cm
, Height: 4.30cm
, Length: 30.50cm
Weight: 2.291kg
ISBN: 9781945711060
ISBN 10: 194571106
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 05 May 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"Geographically focused survey shows and their accompanying publications rarely offer such depth, on the contrary, they often border on ethnography. Pòtoprens: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince succeeds wonderfully in avoiding this trap, and serves as the perfect case study for how curators and editors tasked with such projects can produce something meaningful.--Maymanah Farhat ""Brooklyn Rail"""
Geographically focused survey shows and their accompanying publications rarely offer such depth, on the contrary, they often border on ethnography. Potoprens: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince succeeds wonderfully in avoiding this trap, and serves as the perfect case study for how curators and editors tasked with such projects can produce something meaningful.--Maymanah Farhat Brooklyn Rail
Geographically focused survey shows and their accompanying publications rarely offer such depth, on the contrary, they often border on ethnography. Pòtoprens: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince succeeds wonderfully in avoiding this trap, and serves as the perfect case study for how curators and editors tasked with such projects can produce something meaningful. -- Maymanah Farhat * Brooklyn Rail *
