Women's Art In Jamaica

• exposé - matière potentielle : about the human condition

Jamaica is in many ways a matriarchal society – something that was pointed out and thoroughly analyzed in My Mother Who Fathered Me, Edith Clarke's pioneering study of Jamaican families, first published in 1957, and reprinted several times since. The most important Jamaican artist of the immediate post- colonial period was Edna Manley (1900-1987), wife of Norman Manley, one of the pioneers of Jamaican independence, and a major political figure in her own right.

• accord with the religious practices of the country
• jamaican women artists
• production of art as a juncture of opposites
• large part
• scholarship for further studies
• rejection of the colonial era
• haiti on the international map
• art
• artists