Riding with Death: Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince

Description: Riding with Death by Jana Evans Braziel Explores the urban environmental aesthetics of the Grand Rue sculptors and the beautifully constructed sculptures they have designed from salvaged automobile parts, rubber tires, carved wood, and other recycled materials. Through first-person accounts and fieldwork, Braziel constructs an urban ecological framework for understanding these sculptures amid environmental degradation and poverty. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description On the southern end of the Grand Rue, a major thoroughfare that runs through the center of Port-au-Prince, waits the Haitian capitals automobile repair district. This veritable junkyard of steel and rubber, recycled parts, old tires, and scrap metal might seem an unlikely foundry for art. Yet, on the streets opposite end thrives the Grand Rue Galerie, a working studio of assembled art and sculptures wrought from the refuse.Established by artists André Eugène and Jean Hérard Celeur in the late 1990s, the Grand Rues urban environmental aesthetics-defined by motifs of machinic urbanism, Vodou bricolage, the postprimitivist altermodern, and performative politics--radically challenge ideas about consumption, waste, and environmental hazards, as well as consider innovative solutions to these problems in the midst of poverty, insufficient social welfare, lack of access to arts, education, and basic needs.In Riding with Death, Jana Evans Braziel explores the urban environmental aesthetics of the Grand Rue sculptors and the beautifully constructed sculptures they have designed from salvaged automobile parts, rubber tires, carved wood, and other recycled materials. Through first-person accounts and fieldwork, Braziel constructs an urban ecological framework for understanding these sculptures amid environmental degradation and grinding poverty. Above all, Braziel presents Haitian artists who live on the most challenged Caribbean island, yet who thrive as creators reinventing refuse as art and resisting the abjection of their circumstances. Author Biography Jana Evans Braziel, Cincinnati, Ohio, is Western College Endowed Professor and chair of the Department of Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University. She has coedited five volumes and is author of Duvaliers Ghosts: Race, Diaspora, and U.S. Imperialism in Haitian Literatures; Caribbean Genesis: Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New Worlds; Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora; and Diaspora: An Introduction. Review The Swiss anthropologist Alfred Métraux, who saw Vodou as a modern, urban religion, may have been among the first to pay serious attention to what he called the veritable junk shop that found its way onto the altar in Vodou temples. Jana Evans Braziels Riding with Death takes us from the forties to the present in her original exploration of the hallucinatory assemblages that the artists of the Grand Rue have drawn from the recycled urban trash of Port-au-Prince. Objects charged with magical and supernatural meaning but improvised from the twisted, rusting materials abandoned by global capitalism are analyzed in terms of what she calls Vodou bricolage. Riding with Death is outstanding in its use of theories of imaginative dwelling in urban space to position Haiti in the art historical context of the Americas."" - J. Michael Dash, professor of French, New York University Long Description On the southern end of the Grand Rue, a major thoroughfare that runs through the center of Port-au-Prince, waits the Haitian capitals automobile repair district. This veritable junkyard of steel and rubber, recycled parts, old tires, and scrap metal might seem an unlikely foundry for art. Yet, on the streets opposite end thrives the Grand Rue Galerie, a working studio of assembled art and sculptures wrought from the refuse. Established by artists Andr Review Text The Swiss anthropologist Alfred Mtraux, who saw Vodou as a modern, urban religion, may have been among the first to pay serious attention to what he called the veritable junk shop that found its way onto the altar in Vodou temples. Jana Evans Braziels Riding with Death takes us from the forties to the present in her original exploration of the hallucinatory assemblages that the artists of the Grand Rue have drawn from the recycled urban trash of Port-au-Prince. Objects charged with magical and supernatural meaning but improvised from the twisted, rusting materials abandoned by global capitalism are analyzed in terms of what she calls Vodou bricolage. Riding with Death is outstanding in its use of theories of imaginative dwelling in urban space to position Haiti in the art historical context of the Americas."" - J. Michael Dash, professor of French, New York University Review Quote "The Swiss anthropologist Alfred Mtraux, who saw Vodou as a modern, urban religion, may have been among the first to pay serious attention to what he called the veritable junk shop that found its way onto the altar in Vodou temples. Jana Evans Braziels Riding with Death takes us from the forties to the present in her original exploration of the hallucinatory assemblages that the artists of the Grand Rue have drawn from the recycled urban trash of Port-au-Prince. Objects charged with magical and supernatural meaning but improvised from the twisted, rusting materials abandoned by global capitalism are analyzed in terms of what she calls Vodou bricolage. Riding with Death is outstanding in its use of theories of imaginative dwelling in urban space to position Haiti in the art historical context of the Americas." --J. Michael Dash, professor of French, New York University Promotional "Headline" The Swiss anthropologist Alfred M Details ISBN1496818520 Author Jana Evans Braziel Pages 276 Publisher University Press of Mississippi Series Caribbean Studies Series Year 2018 ISBN-10 1496818520 ISBN-13 9781496818522 Format Paperback Imprint University Press of Mississippi Subtitle Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince Place of Publication Jackson Country of Publication United States DEWEY 731.2 Short Title Riding with Death Language English AU Release Date 2018-05-01 NZ Release Date 2018-05-01 UK Release Date 2018-04-30 Publication Date 2018-04-30 Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2018-04-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:119184689;

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