The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men by Catherine Lord - ISBN: 9781949484106
Hardcover
Colonialism’s shadows: memory, power, and forgotten histories in a tropical light.

The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men

  • Hardcover

    408 pages

  • Release Date

    19 December 2023

Summary

An investigation of memory, both personal and national, that broadens the dialogue on colonialism, complicity, and cultural property.

In March 2001, artist and writer Catherine Lord returned to the Commonwealth of Dominica, an island of middling size halfway along the Caribbean archipelago, one of the more insignificant of the fifty-nine colonies of the British Empire, and the place where she was born in 1949. On the last day of her stay, Lord was loaned three leather-bound ledgers, t…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781949484106
ISBN-10:1949484106
Author:Catherine Lord
Publisher:No Place Press
Imprint:No Place Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:408
Release Date:19 December 2023
Weight:567g
Dimensions:298mm x 184mm
About The Author

Catherine Lord

Catherine Lord, Professor Emerita of Art at the University of California, Irvine, and former Dean of the School of Art at the California Institute of the Arts, is an artist and creative nonfiction writer who now lives in New York. Her work has been supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation, Anonymous was a Woman, and Creative Capital. Her books include The Summer of Her Baldness- A Cancer Improvisation (2004) and, co-authored with Richard Meyer, Art and Queer Culture (2013).

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