ART ABSOLUMENT
Dans le cadre du dossier qu'elle consacre chaque trimestre à une région de France, Art absolument s'est intéressée à la Martinique pour son numéro d'été 2008. En se rendant sur place, Teddy Tibi, directeur de la publication et Pascal Amel, rédacteur en chef, ont été confrontés à une réalité artistique qu'ils ne soupçonnaient pas.
Devant la richesse de la production qu'ils découvrent et face au talent des artistes qu'ils rencontrent - Ernest Breleur, Serge Hélénon, Victor Anicet, Jean-Luc de Laguarigue, Jean-François Boclé, Laurent Valère, Hervé Beuze, Valérie John, Julie Bessard, Chantai Charron, Raymond Médélice, Patricia Baffin et Norville Guirouard-Aizée -, la décision de réaliser un cahier exceptionnel de 32 pages - 8 pages étant généralement accordées - s'impose comme une évidence.
Des entretiens substantiels avec Monsieur Yves Jégo, Secrétaire d'État chargé de l'Outre-Mer, avec Monsieur Bernard Hayot, Président de la Fondation Clément, ainsi qu'un texte de Madame Dominique Brebion, conseillère pour les arts plastiques et les musées de la ORAC Martinique étayent ce dossier.
Il s'agit de faire découvrir, notamment en métropole, la grande qualité d'un art injustement méconnu ou occulté. Ce dossier est dédié à ta mémoire d'Aimé Césaire.
SMALL AXE
SMALL AXE, created in 1997 by David Scott who is now teaching Anthropology in Columbia University, New York, publishes three reviews every year. Twenty-six SMALL AXE issues have been published until now.
The SMALL AXE project develops as follows: participating in the renewal of Criticism in the Caribbean while extending the field of competence and scope of this criticism. SMALL AXE focuses on fiction, poetry, visual arts, and literature with a view to debating and redefining the conceptions that have presided over the shaping of Caribbean modernity. SMALL AXE provides a forum to question the Caribbean today, their political and cultural outlines as well as a critical language that could help analyse their evolution and challenge the alternatives
David Scott hopes that ‘new languages and new ways of thinking regionally’ and in terms of Diaspora about ‘what the Caribbean might be or might become, will emerge more clearly in years to come’.
Have a look : www.smallaxe.net
In october 2009 a special issue about the French West Indies
http://www.smallaxe.net/
Small axe n°30 ( novembre 2009)
Relating the Francophone Caribbean
Preface: Islands of Créolité?
David Scott
Relating the Francophone Caribbean
Guest-edited by Martin Munro and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Globalization and Political Action in the Work of Edouard Glissant
Celia Britton
From Fanon to Glissant: A Martinican Genealogy
Carine Mardorossian
Edouard Glissant and the Art of Memory
Bonnie Thomas
“We Are All Related”: Édouard Glissant Meets Octavia Butler
Valérie Loichot
Haïti en scène ! Renaissance de la trilogie romanesque Amour colère et folie sur la scène théâtrale international
Stéphanie Bérard
Disarming the Warrior of the Imaginary: Patrick Chamoiseau and the Limits of the Aesthetics of Resistance
Stella Amélie Vincenot
On Slavery, Césaire and Relating to the World: An Interview with Patrick Chamoiseau
Maeve McCusker
Visual Memory
Place-Presence
Thierry Tian-Sio-Po
Remembering to Invent One’s Future
Alex Burke
An Artist Smuggler of Image-Matter
Valérie John
Memory and the Contemporary Visual Arts of the Francophone Caribbean
Dominique Brebion
Totem and Fwomajé: the Beginning and the Affirmation of an Artistic Language in Martinique
Patricia Donatien-Yssa
Book discussion: Alex Dupuy: The Prophet and the Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, The International Community, and Haiti; and Peter Hallward: Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment
With contributions by:
· Lyonel Trouillot / Nick Nesbitt/Valerie Kaussen/ Alex Dupuy/ Peter Hallward
The Caribbean Review of Books.
The Caribbean Review of Books of Books was created in Trinidad by Nicholas Laughlin. It is a quarterly review and eighteen issues have been published until now. Originally the review was published in the early 1990s by the University of the West Indies Publishers’ Association in Mona, Jamaica. As a revived version CRB published a pilot issue in 2004, before being incorporated as a non-profit company in 2007. The review is supported by subscriptions and advertising.
This publication which is illustrated focuses on the regional literary scene. It includes new and recent writing about Caribbean novels and poetry collections, plays and films, biographies and memoirs, books about history, art, culture, politics and current affairs. The review also addresses non-academic or non-specialist readers.
www.caribbeanreviewofbooks.com
ARTE POR EXCELENCIAS
The Excelencias Group presents its readers with the Arte por Excelencias magazine. From the perspective of cultural journalism and specialized speech, the Art by Excelencias magazine intends to shed light on the latest trends and current goings of the contemporary arts in the Americas and the Caribbean, as well as to make room for debate on the perspectives and challenges faced by today’s creators and their different artistic expressions in those regions.
It’s in this publication’s best interest to deal with such major world-scope issues as art biennials and fairs, conditions seen in the fields of markets, public and private collectors, collective and individual expositions, the vindication of certain artistic expressions, the promotion of books and catalogs on arts, the contribution to the rescue of historic memories, the daily going of today’s creators in the region and the artworks of emerging artists, among other topics.
The magazine includes articles and essays on individual and collective pieces, interviews, graphic reports, blurbs, news updates and four permanent sections: The Book (dealing with artistic publications), All By Oneself (featuring reflections on the region’s ongoing artistic creation by Dr. Rufo Caballero), The Caricature (depicting the works of cartoonists by artist Aristides Hernandez –a.k.a. Ares- and The Archivist, in which researcher Jose Vegas comments historic developments and curiosities dealing with boldface names of the fine arts from the Americas and the Caribbean.
Arte por Excelencias makes the rounds in fairs, biennials, institutions, museums and art galleries from the Americas and the Caribbean, and is distributed in a customized fashion among artists, curators, museologists, critics and researchers from all around the world.
TECHNICAL FEATURES
Language: Spanish and English
Printout: 10,000 copies
Periodicity: Quarterly
Number of pages: 64 (+) cover and back cover
Format: 21 x 28 cm
Cover: Semi-gloss, 250 g
Interior: Semi-gloss, 125 g / 4x4
Binding: Paperback
RETAIL PRICE & SUBSCRIPTIONS
Retail price per issue: $7 or 8 euros
Full-year subscription (4 issues): $45 or 32 euros
www.arteporexcelencias.com
Contact: aica-sc@orange.fr
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