Foreword Introduction 1. Prehispanic and Colonial Art 2. Decolonization and Creative Iconoclasm 3. Modernism and Cultural Nationalism 4. Popular Culture, Religion and the Festival Arts 5. 'Dangerously Close to Tourist Art' 6. Political Radicalism, Abstraction and Experimental Art 7. The Land, the Sea and the Environment 8. The Personal and the Political 9. The Caribbean Contemporary Bibliography List of Illustrations
Veerle Poupeye is a Belgian-Jamaican art historian, curator and critic. Previously Executive Director of the National Gallery of Jamaica from 2009 to 2018, she now lectures at the Edna Manley College in Kingston, Jamaica, where she is based. She is also the author of Modern Jamaican Art. She has written many articles and exhibition catalogue essays on Jamaican and Caribbean art and culture, and contributed to the journals Small Axe, Jamaica Journal, Caribbean Quarterly and the New West Indian Guide.