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Description of  Derek Walcott s Painters: A Life with Pictures (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures)

Walcotts lifelong concern with painting and painters deeply inflected his aesthetics and politics. Walcotts interventions on the relationship between Caribbean and colonial history have been thoroughly scrutinised, but, arguably, Walcott was also keen to address and (re)write an art history "of which," paraphrasing a line from Omeros, the Caribbean "too" was/is "capable". Contextualising and putting in conversation Walcotts published and unpublished writings (poems, plays, essays, journalism) and his drawings or paintings (privately owned and publicly disseminated) with specific artists from the Caribbean, Europe, South and North America, Read more