Painting Poetry
Author | : Adisa Andwele |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2015-12-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781514429556 |
ISBN-13 | : 1514429551 |
Rating | : 4/5 (551 Downloads) |
Download or read book Painting Poetry written by Adisa Andwele and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painting Poetry is an anthology of poetic interpretations of art presenting thirty poems written by Adisa AJA Andwele and images of paintings by seventeen artists. The artists are Ras Akyem, Ras Ishi, Ras Jahaziel, Omowale Stewart, Corrie Scott, Heather-Dawn Scott, Pierre Nigel and Jadisa Andwele from Barbados; the late Andre Normil and Frantz Zephirin from Haiti; the late Romare Bearden, Alaiyo Bradshaw and Chrissie Dowler from the USA; and from Cuba, the late Wifredo Lam, Omar Estrada, Annie Maxwell and Jesus Gastell Soto. The poetry and paintings cover themes related to the Caribbeans multicultural history, including the survival of African cultureits social, cultural, and religious practices in the Americas as well as nature, abstract forms, and social interactions within urban landscape. Painting Poetry symbolizes a journey along two pathstwo different physical creative dimensionsbut within the experiences is a common destination as the paths lead to the same space.