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An Eye for the Tropics
Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque
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Krista A. Thompson
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Edited by:
Nicholas Thomas
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2006
About this book
A beautifully illustrated look at the aesthetics and implications of the visual images used to sell Jamaica and the Bahamas to tourists as "tropical paradises" from the 1880s through the 1930s.
Author / Editor information
Krista A. Thompson is Assistant Professor of Art History and African American Studies at Northwestern University.
Reviews
“In An Eye for the Tropics, Krista A. Thompson’s guiding preoccupation is with the construction of the Anglo-Creole Caribbean within a colonial regime of visual and discursive representation. How, she asks, was the Caribbean framed within the ocular terms of a tropical paradise as a space of verdant, quasi-primitive desire? The story she tells to answer this question is at once historically detailed and theoretically acute.”—David Scott, author of Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment
“Krista A. Thompson masterfully uses early-twentieth-century postcards to show how social, political, and racial issues are embedded in postcard imagery, while simultaneously analyzing current collecting practices. She makes substantial new and intriguing contributions to the understanding not simply of the historical tropicalization of the islands but of the persistence of such propagandistic attitudes in the economic survival of the islands today.”—Judith Bettelheim, Professor of Art and Art History, San Francisco State University
“One of the first studies to critically interrogate the visual culture of the Caribbean through the lens of both popular art and fine art, it’s an important book that, no doubt, will continue to force the question of an distinct Caribbean art history, singular from a similarly contentious, African American chronicle, and impacted by the parallel histories of economic underdevelopment in the region and Western nostalgia for a present-day, accessible paradise.”
-- Richard J. Powell Small Axe
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
March 15, 2007
eBook ISBN:
9780822388562
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
392
Other:
65 b&w illustrations, 38 color plates
