Bailey's East End - Coffret 3 volumes : Book 1 ; Book 2 ; Book 3

Today, around a million British people are of Caribbean descent, reflecting a history of post-war migration that essentially begins and ends with the Nationality Act of 1948 and the Immigration Act of 1972 - the so-called Windrush Generation. For many, London in particular was where the cultural archipelago of the Caribbean came together for the first time - communication and travel between the islands being difficult. This British-Caribbean connection gave rise to a diverse, complex and exciting wealth of Black cultural forms. At one end of the spectrum, British-Caribbean art is abstract, symbolist and at times cosmological; at the other it is socially realist, with many other positions in between or off that spectrum. Where art is engaged with changes in society, it evokes a community's struggle to forge an identity and livelihood for itself in an environment that often proved hostile. Other works evoke deeper historical experiences, in particular the traumatic after-images of plantation slavery and its legacy in culture and society.
This comprehensive volume brings together key writings on the interrelationship of Britain and the English-speaking Caribbean nations, focussing specifically on the art of the Caribbean diaspora in Britain from the 1920s to today. Combining classic writings with some newlycommissioned contributions, it explores intersecting areas of Black- British cultural production and reflects the diversity of the Black-British experience. With contributions from a range of scholars, Liberation through Imagination is an invaluable sourcebook for those interested in the rich and diverse field of postcolonial British-Caribbean art.

Liberation begins in the imagination : a reader

David Bailey's loving homage to his wife, in Polaroids taken over nearly 40 years.

For the past 38 years, David Bailey (born 1938) has photographed his wife Catherine using Polaroid film. Developing organically over the decades, a book grew with no specific purpose in mind. The result is this visual poem, a witness to their working collaborations and personal adventures. In Bailey's words: "The years went by with great ease and charm. I have been lucky to have such a willing and beautiful subject in my wife and partner in this adventure we have shared together. It came about not by making a plan. All my good ideas seem to happen by accident. My books start with a vague idea, then grow into something I never knew ... the average Polaroid takes a few minutes to develop. This book has taken nearly 40 years."

David Bailey : 117 polaroids

1980s Polaroids of small-town Australia: a rare take on the country's landscape and people from David Bailey.

David Bailey's (born 1938) love letter to Australia, Bailey's Matilda is no rosy portrait of "the lucky country," but a gritty yet affectionate vision of rural and small-town Australia in the early 1980s: black-and-white images of a dead cockatoo, kangaroo and sheep, of painted advertising for Queensland's beloved XXXX beer, of a gravestone and dead tree trunks against a lead sky. His human subjects are the Indigenous people of Australia, not the descendants of its white colonists. Bailey embraces all the flaws and accidents of his prints--their blurrings, smudges and stains--and enhances them with his own scribbles and crops, creating painterly results. In his own words it's all about chance: "This book should have been washed up in a bottle on the sea shore."

David : Bailey's Matilda

Road to barking

Leurs chemins se croisent un soir de 1965, chez Castel. Amanda Lear, étudiante aux Beaux-Arts, est en même temps un mannequin qui vit entre Londres et Paris. Elle devient rapidement l'égérie du maître de Cadaqués, sous l'oil mi-jaloux mi-complice de Gala, l'épouse légitime, dont on ne saurait contester le pouvoir. Amanda se souvient de la cour fastueusement baroque du seigneur catalan, de la fantaisie provocatrice des sixties-seventies, de leur folle créativité et de la décadence qui s'annonce, tandis que défilent des personnages hors du commun parmi lesquels Marcel Duchamp, Brian Jones, Andy Warhol, Malraux, Picasso et bien d'autres... Mais on découvre aussi dans ces pages le Dali intime, ses terreurs et ses manies, sa générosité, son amour de la vie, avant qu'une pénible agonie ne l'abandonne à des vautours qui l'éloigneront de ses vrais amis, commercialisant son nom comme une lessive et vendant des faux à tour de bras. Mon Dali : un hommage sans concessions au génie disparu, et l'évocation émouvante autant que fantasque d'une relation ambiguë qui n'en fut pas moins une histoire d'amour.

Bailey's East End - Coffret 3 volumes : Book 1 ; Book 2 ; Book 3

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