In Hyppolite’s traces: haitian folk painting between religion and art
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2020v25n3p602Keywords:
Haiti, Voodoo, Popular painting, Art, ReligionAbstract
This article, based on an ethnography with historical documents, seeks to reflect on the construction practices of the so-called “popular art” in Haiti in the mid20th century. To this end, it follows the creation and the first years of operation of the Center d’Art, a center for the production and dissemination of Haitian plastic arts created in 1944, and the circulation of its first exhibitions abroad. Particular emphasis is given to the narrative articulated by the institution around the celebrated painter and voodoo priest Hector Hyppolite (1894-1948), who, i argue, is himself regarded as a kind of circulating artifact. The work and the very figure of Hyppolite function as well as the condensed image of a “popular Haiti” that was wanted to be projected at that moment, marked by its African roots expressed both in the religious and artistic fields.Downloads
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CHENET, Jean; THOBY-MARCELIN, Phillipe. La double vie d’Hector Hyppolite (extraits). Conjonction, Port-au-Prince, n. 16, 1948.
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HAFFNER, Peter. Tourism and Connoisseurship in the Collection Histories of Haitian Art in the United States. Latin American History, Oxford, 2017.
HERSKOVITS, Melville. Life in a Haitian Valley. New York: Anchor Books, 1971.
HERZFELD, Michael. Intimidade cultural: poética social no Estado-Nação. Coimbra: Edições 70, 2005.
LAURIÈRE, Christine. D’une île à l’autre: Alfred Métraux en Haiti. Gradhiva, Paris, n. 1, p. 181-207, 2005.
LEIRIS, Michel. Antilles et poésie des carrefours. In: LEIRIS, M. Zébrages. Paris: Gallimard, 1992.
LEIRIS, Michel. Contacts de civilisations en Martinique et en Guadeloupe. Paris: Gallimard: UNESCO, 1955.
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NADEAU, Maurice. História do surrealismo. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1985.
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RIGAUD, Milo. La tradition voudoo et le voudoo haïtien (son temple, ses mystère, sa magie). Port-au-Prince: Éditions Fardin, 2015.
RODMAN, Selden. Renaissance in Haiti: popular painters in the Black Republic. New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1948.
TOLEDO, Magdalena. Marronismos, bricolagens e canibalismos: percursos de artistas e apropriações de Aimé Césaire na Martinica contemporânea. 2014. Tese (Doutorado em Antropologia Social) – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2014.
TROUILLOT, Michel-Rolph. The odd and the ordinary: Haiti, the Caribbean, and the world. Cimarrón, [S. l.], v. 2, n. 3, p. 3-12, 1990.
ULYSSE, Sterlin. Le vaudou dans l’art contemporain. In: CUZIN, Régine at alii. Haiti: deux siècles de création artistique. Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux - Grand Palais, 2015.
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2020-12-29
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GOYATÁ, Júlia Vilaça. In Hyppolite’s traces: haitian folk painting between religion and art. Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais, Londrina, v. 25, n. 3, p. 602–619, 2020. DOI: 10.5433/2176-6665.2020v25n3p602. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/41199. Acesso em: 21 nov. 2024.
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