Life between islands : Caribbean-British art 1950s - now / edited by Alex Farquharson and David A. Bailey.

"This fascinating exhibition book traces the connection between Britain and the Caribbean in the visual arts from the 1950s to today, a social and cultural history more often told through literature or popular music. It celebrates how people from the Caribbean have forged new communities and identities in post-war Britain - and in doing so have transformed British culture and society. ... Arranged chronologically, it sheds light on a number of themes such as Caribbean modernism, social and political struggles, subculture and its policing, the front room as a private and public space, after-images of slavery and the Middle Passage, and syncretic and creolised metaphor and allegory (carnival, folklore, new world religions). Readers will find themselves charting a course between two worlds: London or other urban localities in the UK and images of formerly British Caribbean nations." --From publisher's website.

"Life Between Islands explores the relationship between the Caribbean and Britain in art from the 1950s to the present day. It is also a multi-generational story of a Caribbean community that settled in Britain and forged a new Black British identity and culture. Featuring a wide array of artworks, this book brings together artists hailing from or in dialogue with the Caribbean. Engaging with the complex cross-cultural narratives of the past, exploring the social, cultural and political issues of the time, and pointing to the future, it offers a multi-layered and vital account of postwar and contemporary Caribbean-British art history and is a celebration of the communities that have helped shape modern Britain."-- Publisher's description, lower cover.

London, England : Tate Publishing, 2021.

New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by ABRAMS

Belgium : Printed & bound by die Keure

271 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour) ; 27 cm

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Life between islands: Caribbean-British art 1950s-now", held at Tate Britain, London, 1 December 2021 - 3 April 2022.

Foreword -- Anew: To the Future, via the Past / Alex Farquharson -- Caribbean Movements in Britain / David A. Bailey -- Stuart Hall's Vernacular Modernism / David Scott -- Nature Erupts into Orchestras of Nemesis: The Ecological Imaginary of the Caribbean / Giulia Smith -- Colour Bars and Bass Cultures, Dub Aesthetics and Cockney Translations: Music in the Creole History of Black Life in Britain / Paul Gilroy -- Movement of People / A rhythm sequence by Grace Wales Bonner -- Comin Rite Thru: Masquerade and Marches, Resistance and Revolution / Allison Thompson -- Home and Away: Odysseys, Entanglements and Acts of Resistance / Gilane Tawadros -- Hostile Environments and Black Geographies / Daniella Rose King -- Works -- Timeline -- Notes -- Artist Biographies -- Further Reading -- Exhibited Works -- Credits.

Includes bibliographical references (page 259) and index.