In extremis
Subtitle: death and life in twenty-first-century Haitian art
By: Donald J. Cosentino, editor ; with essays by Donald J. Cosentino, Edwidge Danticat, Leah Gordon, Claudine Michel and Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick A. Polk, Jean Claude Saintilus, Katherine Smith
Contributors: Fowler Museum at UCLA
Publisher: Fowler Museum at UCLA
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780984755004
Subjects: Death in art; Exhibitions; Haitian Art; Voodooism in art
Description: Overview: Focusing on artistic evocations of the irrepressible Gedes-an increasingly dominant family of trickster deities-In Extremis examines the striking disjunction between social collapse and artistic flourescence in twenty-first century Haiti. It brings together the work of 34 artists, most of them living in Port-au-Prince, where they produce remarkable and controversial bodies of work in a variety of media while confronting on a daily basis the realities of Haiti's frustratingly slow recovery from the earthquake of 2010. Some of these artists have achieved acclaim on the international stage, but many receive new attention or reexamination here.
Notes: Issued in connection with an exhibition held September 16, 2012-January 20, 2013, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, California.

Includes bibliographical references and index.