Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 A Brief History of a Vocation in (about) Fifteen Objects
- 2 Atelier des Tropiques: The Local Scene
- 3 Voyages to Cythera and the European Legacy
- 4 American Visions I – Frescoes of the New World and Black America
- 5 American Visions II – Black Odysseys
- 6 Painting (and) the Caribbean: The Awe of the Ordinary and the Search for Anonymity
- 7 Poems ‘Out Of’ Paintings: Towards an Ekphrasis of Relation
- Farewell
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index to Derek Walcott’s Archival Material
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 March 2025
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 A Brief History of a Vocation in (about) Fifteen Objects
- 2 Atelier des Tropiques: The Local Scene
- 3 Voyages to Cythera and the European Legacy
- 4 American Visions I – Frescoes of the New World and Black America
- 5 American Visions II – Black Odysseys
- 6 Painting (and) the Caribbean: The Awe of the Ordinary and the Search for Anonymity
- 7 Poems ‘Out Of’ Paintings: Towards an Ekphrasis of Relation
- Farewell
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index to Derek Walcott’s Archival Material
- Type
- Chapter
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- Derek Walcott's PaintersA Life with Pictures, pp. v - viiPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2023