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Poids de l'ouvrage

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Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands' tourism industry in the 1880s. As Krista A. Thompson explains, in the late nineteenth century, tourism promoters, backed by British colonial administrators, began to market Jamaica and the Bahamas as picturesque "tropical" paradises. They hired photographers and artists to create carefully crafted representations, which then circulated internationally via postcards and illustrated guides and lectures.Illustrated with more than one hundred images, including many in color, An Eye for the Tropics is a nuanced evaluation of the aesthetics of the "tropicalizing images" and their effects on Jamaica and the Bahamas. Thompson describes how representations created to project an image to the outside world altered everyday life on the islands. Hoteliers imported tropical plants to make the islands look more like the images. Many prominent tourist-oriented spaces, including hotels and famous beaches, became off-limits to the islands' black populations, who were encouraged to act like the disciplined, loyal colonial subjects depicted in the pictures.Analyzing the work of specific photographers and artists who created tropical representations of Jamaica and the Bahamas between the 1880s and the 1930s, Thompson shows how their images differ from the English picturesque landscape tradition. Turning to the present, she examines how tropicalizing images are deconstructed in works by contemporary artists-including Christopher Cozier, David Bailey, and Irenee Shaw-at the same time that they remain a staple of postcolonial governments' vigorous efforts to attract tourists.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

15 mars 2007

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822388562

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

6 Mo

Tourism

An Eye for the Tropics

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Critical Perspectives on Art, Material Culture, and Representation

A series edited by Nicholas Thomas Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation

AN EYE FOR THE TROPICS

Tourism, Photography,

and Framing the

Caribbean Picturesque

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        T R O P I C A L I Z A T I O N The Aesthetics and Politics of Space in Jamaica and the Bahamas

         F R A M I N G ‘‘ T H E N E W J A M A I C A’’ Feasting on the Picturesque Tropical Landscape

         D E V E L O P I N G T H E T R O P I C S The Politics of the Picturesque in the Bahamas

            T H R O U G H T H E L O O K I N G G L A S S Visualizing the Sea as Icon of the Bahamas

         D I V I N G I N T O T H E R A C I A L W A T E R S O F B E A C H S P A C E I N J A M A I C A Tropical Modernity and the Myrtle Bank Hotel’s Pool

          ‘‘ I A M R E N D E R E D S P E E C H L E S S B Y Y O U R I D E A O F B E A U T Y ’’ The Picturesque in History and Art in the Postcolony

      T R O P I C A L F U T U R E S Civilizing Citizens and Uncivilizing Tourists

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1Donkey at Dunn’s River Falls (Ocho Rios, Jamaica),  2A Snapshot of Jamaica, ca.  3H. S. Duperly, ‘‘An Expert for a Three Miles Race, Kingston, Jamaica,’’ – 4‘‘Chuh!!!,’’ – 5Page from a traveler’s album, ca.  6Marianne North,A Night-Flowering Crinum Lily and Ferns, Jamaica,  7James Johnston, ‘‘Scene on the Rio Cobre,’’ ca.  8James Johnston, ‘‘Royal Palms, Ravensworth, Spanish Town,’’  9‘‘Golden Vale,’’  10James Johnston, ‘‘Domestics with Yams, Cocoanuts, Etc.,’’  11‘‘Rafting on the Rio Grande—A Stop for Lunch,’’ ca.  11aDetail of ‘‘Rafting on the Rio Grande—A Stop for Lunch,’’ ca.  12‘‘The New Jamaica. Coat of Arms,’’ ca.  13J. W. Cleary, ‘‘Banana Carriers—Jamaica,’’ postmarked  14A. Duperly and Sons, ‘‘Castleton Gardens,’’  15James Johnston, ‘‘Hard Labour,’’ ca.  16O. Milke, ‘‘Kingston, Beautiful Washerwoman,’’ postmarked  17A. Duperly and Sons, ‘‘Cane Cutters,’’ ca. – 18C. B. Webster, ‘‘A Typical Coolie Family,’’ ca.  19C. B. Webster, ‘‘Coolies Washing,’’ postmarked  20William Henry Jackson, ‘‘Ceiba or Silk Cotton Tree,’’  21William Henry Jackson, ‘‘Royal Palms, Cumberland Street, Nassau, W.I.,’’  22Jacob Frank Coonley, ‘‘On the Way to Market,’’ – 23[Jacob Frank Coonley], ‘‘On the way to Market,’’  23a[Jacob Frank Coonley], ‘‘On the way to Market,’’  (divided back) 24Winslow Homer,On the Way to the Market, Bahamas,  25Winslow Homer,Palm Tree, Nassau, ca. – 26Jacob Frank Coonley, ‘‘A Native African Hut,’’ – 27William Henry Jackson, ‘‘Royal Victoria Gardens, Nassau, Bahama Island,’’ 

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