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This essay reflects on the contribution made by Timed Out: Art and the Transnational Caribbean (2011) to alternative futures for the Caribbean-focused study of art and its histories. Wainwright emphasizes the need for better attention to the complex "geopolitics of time" that is central to the formation of Caribbean creative experience, and outlines the discursive field, the art market, and the policy and funding landscape through which Caribbean and diaspora artists move. In response to the discussion of Timed Out in this issue of Small Axe, Wainwright explains the continuing need to explode the existing dominant art canons (while highlighting the problematic assimilation of counterdiscursive and plural positions) and proposes various pathways by which the Caribbean's role in changing powerful modes and priorities of art historical scholarship may be extended fruitfully to the wider humanities.

This article discusses various perspectives on image-making in the Anglophone Caribbean with reference to the economy of relations between its visitors and inhabitants during the modern colonial period and its aftermath. It evaluates the framework of the "tropical picturesque" as a locus of embodied visual practices—with a significant, if often mysterious past—and debates Krista A. Thompson's notion of an "eye for the tropics" by reference to recent art historical insights drawn from fieldwork in Trinidad.

Addressing present day art making in the southern Caribbean island of Trinidad, with specific attention to the notion of a diasporic 'Indian art', this article offers a genealogy of some relationships between ethnicity, nationhood and visual imaging. Focusing on the painter and sculptor Shastri Maharaj (b. 1953), who is descended from South Asian indentured migrants to Trinidad, it shows how artists in the Caribbean have negotiated the region's period of strident anti-colonialism to the present. Examples of Maharaj's art comprise works of figuration and landscape, including depictions of local architectural styles and Hindu ritual, as well as more ambiguous and abstract forms, also presented as gallery installations. Paying attention to these the discussion highlights the problematic relations between the exegetical tendency for 'reading' such visual materials, and the ambitions of artists seeking to transcend the limits of expectations about ethnicity and cultural difference. In place of those limits it recommends an alternative historiography able to enjoin the critical search among contemporary artists for perceptual and aesthetic agency.

Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the importance of the social imagination - the complex ways in which we conceptualize our social surroundings. This collection engages the "material turn" in the arts, humanities, and social sciences through a range of original contributions on creativity in diverse global and contemporary social settings. The authors engage with everyday objects, art, rituals, and ethnographic exhibitions to analyze the relationship between material culture and the social imagination. What results is a better understanding of how the material embodies and influences our idea of the social world.

The Circum-Caribbean and its diasporas constitute a space of relations and disconnections. Historically, the Caribbean served as a bridgehead for the European conquest of the Americas and a point of exchange of human beings, ideas, and commodities. It also became a laboratory of modern forms of social, political, and economic production. Today, the region represents a multilingual space of conviviality for many different cultures, but is also the focus of the dissonances, ruptures and insularities produced by its distinct histories of colonialism and resistance. This interdisciplinary volume seeks to explore how (non-)circulation of ideas occurred historically in the glocal production of knowledge in and about the Caribbean and to formulate a clearer picture of who is creating which vision of the Caribbean, and how. The 33 contributions in this volume shed light on the transversal fields of (1) Academic and Artistic Approaches, (2) Arts and Visual Studies, (3) Environment and Sustainability, (4) Migration and Knowledge Circulation, (5) Entangled Histories and Memories. ; Die Zirkumkaribik und ihre Diaspora ist eine Region der Beziehungen und Brüche, die historisch als Sprungbrett der europäischen Eroberung Amerikas und Umschlagplatz von Menschen, Ideen und Waren sowie als Experimentierfeld moderner sozialer, politischer und ökonomischer Produktionsformen diente. Heute stellt sich die Region als gemeinsamer kultureller, multilingualer Raum des Zusammenlebens dar, der aber auch durch unterschiedliche Kolonial- und Widerstandsgeschichten von Dissonanzen, Brüchen und Insularitäten geprägt ist. Dieser interdisziplinäre, dreisprachige Band untersucht die Zirkulation von Wissensbeständen und Archiven in der glokalen Wissensproduktion in und über die Karibik und zielt auf eine klarere Vorstellung darüber, wer wie bzw. womit welche Karibik entwirft. Die 33 Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit fünf transversalen Themen: (1) Akademische und künstlerische Annäherungen (2) Kunst und Visuelle Studien, (3) Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit, ...

The Circum-Caribbean and its diasporas constitute a space of relations and disconnections. Historically, the Caribbean served as a bridgehead for the European conquest of the Americas and a point of exchange of human beings, ideas, and commodities. It also became a laboratory of modern forms of social, political, and economic production. Today, the region represents a multilingual space of conviviality for many different cultures, but is also the focus of the dissonances, ruptures and insularities produced by its distinct histories of colonialism and resistance. This interdisciplinary volume seeks to explore how (non-)circulation of ideas occurred historically in the glocal production of knowledge in and about the Caribbean and to formulate a clearer picture of who is creating which vision of the Caribbean, and how. The 33 contributions in this volume shed light on the transversal fields of (1) Academic and Artistic Approaches, (2) Arts and Visual Studies, (3) Environment and Sustainability, (4) Migration and Knowledge Circulation, (5) Entangled Histories and Memories. ; Die Zirkumkaribik und ihre Diaspora ist eine Region der Beziehungen und Brüche, die historisch als Sprungbrett der europäischen Eroberung Amerikas und Umschlagplatz von Menschen, Ideen und Waren sowie als Experimentierfeld moderner sozialer, politischer und ökonomischer Produktionsformen diente. Heute stellt sich die Region als gemeinsamer kultureller, multilingualer Raum des Zusammenlebens dar, der aber auch durch unterschiedliche Kolonial- und Widerstandsgeschichten von Dissonanzen, Brüchen und Insularitäten geprägt ist. Dieser interdisziplinäre, dreisprachige Band untersucht die Zirkulation von Wissensbeständen und Archiven in der glokalen Wissensproduktion in und über die Karibik und zielt auf eine klarere Vorstellung darüber, wer wie bzw. womit welche Karibik entwirft. Die 33 Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit fünf transversalen Themen: (1) Akademische und künstlerische Annäherungen (2) Kunst und Visuelle Studien, (3) Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit, ...

The Circum-Caribbean and its diasporas constitute a space of relations and disconnections. Historically, the Caribbean served as a bridgehead for the European conquest of the Americas and a point of exchange of human beings, ideas, and commodities. It also became a laboratory of modern forms of social, political, and economic production. Today, the region represents a multilingual space of conviviality for many different cultures, but is also the focus of the dissonances, ruptures and insularities produced by its distinct histories of colonialism and resistance. This interdisciplinary volume seeks to explore how (non-)circulation of ideas occurred historically in the glocal production of knowledge in and about the Caribbean and to formulate a clearer picture of who is creating which vision of the Caribbean, and how. The 33 contributions in this volume shed light on the transversal fields of (1) Academic and Artistic Approaches, (2) Arts and Visual Studies, (3) Environment and Sustainability, (4) Migration and Knowledge Circulation, (5) Entangled Histories and Memories. ; Die Zirkumkaribik und ihre Diaspora ist eine Region der Beziehungen und Brüche, die historisch als Sprungbrett der europäischen Eroberung Amerikas und Umschlagplatz von Menschen, Ideen und Waren sowie als Experimentierfeld moderner sozialer, politischer und ökonomischer Produktionsformen diente. Heute stellt sich die Region als gemeinsamer kultureller, multilingualer Raum des Zusammenlebens dar, der aber auch durch unterschiedliche Kolonial- und Widerstandsgeschichten von Dissonanzen, Brüchen und Insularitäten geprägt ist. Dieser interdisziplinäre, dreisprachige Band untersucht die Zirkulation von Wissensbeständen und Archiven in der glokalen Wissensproduktion in und über die Karibik und zielt auf eine klarere Vorstellung darüber, wer wie bzw. womit welche Karibik entwirft. Die 33 Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit fünf transversalen Themen: (1) Akademische und künstlerische Annäherungen (2) Kunst und Visuelle Studien, (3) Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit, ...

The Circum-Caribbean and its diasporas constitute a space of relations and disconnections. Historically, the Caribbean served as a bridgehead for the European conquest of the Americas and a point of exchange of human beings, ideas, and commodities. It also became a laboratory of modern forms of social, political, and economic production. Today, the region represents a multilingual space of conviviality for many different cultures, but is also the focus of the dissonances, ruptures and insularities produced by its distinct histories of colonialism and resistance. This interdisciplinary volume seeks to explore how (non-)circulation of ideas occurred historically in the glocal production of knowledge in and about the Caribbean and to formulate a clearer picture of who is creating which vision of the Caribbean, and how. The 33 contributions in this volume shed light on the transversal fields of (1) Academic and Artistic Approaches, (2) Arts and Visual Studies, (3) Environment and Sustainability, (4) Migration and Knowledge Circulation, (5) Entangled Histories and Memories. ; Die Zirkumkaribik und ihre Diaspora ist eine Region der Beziehungen und Brüche, die historisch als Sprungbrett der europäischen Eroberung Amerikas und Umschlagplatz von Menschen, Ideen und Waren sowie als Experimentierfeld moderner sozialer, politischer und ökonomischer Produktionsformen diente. Heute stellt sich die Region als gemeinsamer kultureller, multilingualer Raum des Zusammenlebens dar, der aber auch durch unterschiedliche Kolonial- und Widerstandsgeschichten von Dissonanzen, Brüchen und Insularitäten geprägt ist. Dieser interdisziplinäre, dreisprachige Band untersucht die Zirkulation von Wissensbeständen und Archiven in der glokalen Wissensproduktion in und über die Karibik und zielt auf eine klarere Vorstellung darüber, wer wie bzw. womit welche Karibik entwirft. Die 33 Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit fünf transversalen Themen: (1) Akademische und künstlerische Annäherungen (2) Kunst und Visuelle Studien, (3) Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit, ...