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Koo-Koo, or Actor-Boy

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Description: Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds
~Through public performance across the Caribbean, African cultures found common ground to express both their varied origins and shared experiences. Public art became an outlet for the ever-changing identities of the region’s populations and the traditions they sought to preserve. Jonkonnu is the Jamaican reformulation of the tradition of the masquerade, a...
PublisherYale Center for British Art
Related print edition pages: pp.463-496
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00018.027
Description: Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds
Jamaica hangs in a nervous state of suspension. It is the mid-1830s. The abolitionists have triumphed, and slavery is on the way out. Although the colony no longer seems vulnerable to massive revolts like the “Christmas Uprising” that shook the island at the beginning of the decade, a definite edginess remains. Emancipation was declared in 1834, but many of the enslaved have yet to be...
PublisherYale Center for British Art
Related print edition pages: pp.121-133
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00018.011
Description: Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds
Isaac Mendes Belisario’s prints indelibly document the Afro-Jamaican masked festival known as Jánkúnu. During recent research on Kongo art...
PublisherYale Center for British Art
Related print edition pages: pp.89-100
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00018.009

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