Patchwork : Essays and Interviews on Caribbean Visual Culture by Jacqueline ...

PatchworkEssays & Interviews on Caribbean Visual Culture\nAuthor(s): Jacqueline Bishop\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Intellect, United Kingdom\nImprint: Intellect Books\nISBN-13: 9781789386462, 978-1789386462\nSynopsis\nThe patchwork is an apt metaphor for the region not only because of its colourfulness and the making of something whole out of fragments but as an attempt to make coherence out of disorder. The seeking of coherence was the exact process of putting together this book and foregrounds the process of Caribbean societies forging identity and identities out of plural and at times conflicting and contested groups that came to call the region home.\n\nWithin the metaphor of the patchwork however is the question, where are the vernacular needlework artists within the visual art tradition of the Caribbean? The introduction sets out to both clarify and rectify this situation, and several common themes flow through the following essays and interviews. Themes include that tha.