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In extremis : death and life in twenty-first-century Haitian art / 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.
LIBRA N6606.6 .I5 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Haitian--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Art, Haitian.
- Death in art--Exhibitions.
- Death in art.
- Vodou in art--Exhibitions.
- Vodou in art.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 196 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : Fowler Museum at UCLA, [2012]
- Contents:
- A prayer for Gede / Claudine Michel
- Koko na pa de pwèl : Marasa reflection on Gede / Claudine Michel and Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
- Preface / Edwidge Danticat
- Acknowledgments / Donald J. Cosentino
- Gede rising / Donald J. Cosentino
- Portfolio : Gede's facebook page / Donald J. Cosentino, with an account by Frank Polyak
- Genealogies of Gede / Katherine Smith
- Gede : the poster boy for vodou / Leah Gordon
- Remember you must die! Gede banners, memento mori, and the fine art of facing death / Patrick A. Polk
- Playing dead : the Northside skull and bone gang / Stephen C. Wehmeyer
- I'm dead already...I just haven't been buried yet / Jean Claude Saintilus, as interviewed by Leah Gordon
- Coda : the altars of Emperor Sonson / Donald J. Cosentino.
- Notes:
- Issued in connection with an exhibition held September 16, 2012-January 20, 2013, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, California.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-188) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780984755004
- 0984755004
- OCLC:
- 798093599
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