The Visual Culture of Caribbean Modernism
Amanda Reid, Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, Yale, will discuss key works from the exhibition Going Modern: British Art, 1900–1960 that examine British and Caribbean modernism, two aesthetic movements deeply connected to one another.
About this program
During the twentieth century, an unprecedented wave of postwar Caribbean migration to the United Kingdom ushered in dramatic change and a diversity of new voices that reshaped conversations about what it meant to be British. Join us in the galleries as we look at three key works that explore the interactions between Black Caribbean and Anglo-British artists who shaped Britain’s visual culture in unexpected ways.
About Amanda Reid
Amanda Reid is a dance historian who teaches and writes about queer of color critique, West Indian migration, and Caribbean expressive culture. Her current manuscript project, Smaddification: Dance and West Indian Decolonization, explores maximalist queer diaspora aesthetics in Jamaican concert dance to theorize West Indian regional visions of blackness, bodily freedom, and cultural autonomy.
