Legrace Benson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Legrace Benson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Legrace |
| FAMILY NAME | Benson |
| SIGNATURE | BENSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7663-8778 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Theatre Econiches
This essay reports on cumulative observations and participation in material theatres and the human behaviours that these locales afford. The central theoretical stance is primarily from the standpoint of James J. Gibson's theories of ecological perception and subsequent developments by researchers working from the same or similar points of view. The concept of presentation uses Sociologist Erving Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Lif…
Marasa
This special issue on Haiti's environment and a recently created working group within the Haitian Studies Association (HSA) share a birth year: 2020. The pair had their conception during HSA's 2016 conference in Cap-Haïtien, "Haiti's Eco-systems: Focus on Environmental Realities and Hopes." The meeting in Cap-Haïtien demonstrated a significant interest in the environment of Haiti and its challenges. Members responded to the call with papers, pane…
Ecological Disquisitions on Six Paintings by Edouard Jean
Capois artist Edouard Jean (1953-) created this group of paintings especially for a Haitian Studies Association conference, held in Cap-Haïtien in 2016, with the environment as its central theme. Jean is among the artists who were students and then colleagues of Philomé Obin, founder of the "School of the North History Painters." Many of Jean's works depict scenes of Haitian history, and he has been observed walking about with a rolled-up copy of…
How Multiple Textures of Daily Life Created a Singular Nation
Staging Eden; Staging Power
A uniquely successful slave revolt enabled King Henry (Christophe) I to lead an engagement with native plants, animals including humans, built structures, and landscaped gardens in The Kingdom of Haiti, a tropical country liberated from colonial rule. The new ruler’s political and economic exigencies and hopes had points of both collaboration and contention with the expectations of the new citizens. He would make full use of both local traditiona…
Pòtoprens
Reviewed by: Pòtoprens: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince/Atis nan vil Pòtoprens ed. by Leah Gordon and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro LeGrace Benson Pòtoprens: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince/Atis nan vil Pòtoprens. Edited by Leah Gordon and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, with additional essays by Edouard Duval-Carrié and Gina Ulysse. Brooklyn, NY: Pioneer Works, 2021. ISBN: 978-1945711060. 416 pp. $55 hardcover. Even before beginning to read the text, it …
Le Précepteur du Prince-Royal Victor-Henry by William Wilson
Reviewed by: Le Précepteur du Prince-Royal Victor-Henryby William Wilson LeGrace Benson Le Précepteur du Prince-Royal Victor-Henry. By William Wilson. Translated byMarie-Thérèse Chenet and Lucienne Zennie. Port-au-Prince: Imprimerie Henri Deschamps, 2020. 72pages. ISBN: 9993503614, 9789993503613. 650 gourdes. Close to the two-hundredth anniversary of the death of Henry Christophe and the fall of the Kingdom of Haiti, Musée du Panthéon National Ha…
Haiti at the Grand Palais, Paris
Haiti at the Grand Palais, Paris LeGrace Benson Haïti : Deux siècles de création artistique. Exhibition, Grand Palais, Paris, November 2014– February 2015. Haïti : Deux siècles de création artistique (catalogue of the exhibition). By Mireille Pérodin-Jérôme and Régine Cuzin. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2014. ISBN 9782711861590. 231 pp. €39 cloth. This intelligently designed exposition of Haitian art and its thoughtful catalogue tell stor…
Tina Girouard et l'art des sequins d'Haïti
Les œuvres en sequins réalisées par Tina Girouard sont le fruit de plusieurs années d'une collaboration toute familiale avec les artistes du Bel Air en Haïti. Mais ces pièces, qu'elles aient été créées lors de son séjour là-bas ou plus tard, portent indéniablement la marque de l'artiste. En retour, son influence sur les artistes du Bel Air a eu pour effet de promouvoir leur style personnel, de les encourager à signer leur production et de déploye…
A Queen in Diaspora
A Queen in Diaspora:The Sorrowful Exile of Queen Marie-Louise Christophe (1778, Ouanaminth, Haiti–March 11, 1851, Pisa, Italy)1 LeGrace Benson On March 11, 1851, having made her last confession and received Extreme Unction and Viaticum, la principessa nera della Russia passed from this life. There was a requiem Mass followed by interment at a side altar of the Capuchin chapel of San Donnino, beside her daughters, Améthyste [d. 1831] and Athénaïre…
Haiti’s Elusive Paradise
This chapter focuses on the Edenic garden, a ubiquitous trope in which artists from Haiti merge African and New World ecologies in their visual mapping of place. More precisely, it explores the implications of the Edenic garden for the environmental and economic devastation of Haiti. It also considers the link between the Haitian artists’ idealized landscape paintings and global tourism in Haiti. Finally, it discusses the economics, politics, lin…
On ReadingContinental Shiftsand Considering the Works of Edouard Duval Carrié
On Reading Continental Shifts and Considering the Works of Edouard Duval Carrié
With his painting and sculpture, Duval Carrié creates mise-en-scène in which viewers become vicarious participants in four acts of the transatlantic drama of violation of sovereignties and identities: act 1, the destruction of the Caribbean environment and its indigenous people; act 2, the slave trade; act 3, the slave uprising that created Haiti; and act 4, the “endless migration” of post-occupation diaspora that continues into the present as an…
How Houngans Use the Light from Distant Stars
Qur’an and Bible traveled on the ships bound from Africa to St.-Domingue. So did tracts of the European Enlightenment; copies of the Declaration of the Rights of Man ; abolitionist letters from the Abbot Grégoire; Christian catechisms; grimoires full of instructions for magic rituals to insure love, good fortune, and victory. This print material was spare and simple compared to the complex intellectual environment carried around the minds of the …
Kiskeya-Lan Guinee-Eden
Visiting Haiti at the beginning of this decade, one could see that paradise paintings were popular. Every art dealer major or minor had a stock of them. Street vendors hawked them by the dozens to tourists, and in the Centre d'Art in Port-au-Prince one whole room was filled to capacity with racks and bins of them. They were as easy to find as a Madonna in Rome, probably with roots as deep. The notion of Eden, a condition of real or imagined past,…
A Comment on 'Collage as Jokework
Art in the Seventies
Artists 100 Years
American Art
The Joys and Sorrows of Recent American Art
What the book under review demonstrates more than anything else is the durability of the interpretation of modem art that sees everywhere an antecedent contest between classical precision and romantic power. In this conception there are paired opposites all along the way: Ingres and Delacroix, Seurat and Van Gogh, Mondrian and Kandinsky, Sheeler and Marin. Besides the tendency towards pure formalism there flows a strong current tending to absolut…
Language and Visual Form; The Personal Record of a Dual Creative Process
An Interview with Piero Gilardi
An Interview with Piero Gilardi
Language and Visual Form; The Personal Record of a Dual Creative Process
The Joys and Sorrows of Recent American Art
What the book under review demonstrates more than anything else is the durability of the interpretation of modem art that sees everywhere an antecedent contest between classical precision and romantic power. In this conception there are paired opposites all along the way: Ingres and Delacroix, Seurat and Van Gogh, Mondrian and Kandinsky, Sheeler and Marin. Besides the tendency towards pure formalism there flows a strong current tending to absolut…
American Art
Artists 100 Years
Art in the Seventies
A Comment on 'Collage as Jokework
Kiskeya-Lan Guinee-Eden
Visiting Haiti at the beginning of this decade, one could see that paradise paintings were popular. Every art dealer major or minor had a stock of them. Street vendors hawked them by the dozens to tourists, and in the Centre d'Art in Port-au-Prince one whole room was filled to capacity with racks and bins of them. They were as easy to find as a Madonna in Rome, probably with roots as deep. The notion of Eden, a condition of real or imagined past,…
How Houngans Use the Light from Distant Stars
Qur’an and Bible traveled on the ships bound from Africa to St.-Domingue. So did tracts of the European Enlightenment; copies of the Declaration of the Rights of Man ; abolitionist letters from the Abbot Grégoire; Christian catechisms; grimoires full of instructions for magic rituals to insure love, good fortune, and victory. This print material was spare and simple compared to the complex intellectual environment carried around the minds of the …
On ReadingContinental Shiftsand Considering the Works of Edouard Duval Carrié
On Reading Continental Shifts and Considering the Works of Edouard Duval Carrié
With his painting and sculpture, Duval Carrié creates mise-en-scène in which viewers become vicarious participants in four acts of the transatlantic drama of violation of sovereignties and identities: act 1, the destruction of the Caribbean environment and its indigenous people; act 2, the slave trade; act 3, the slave uprising that created Haiti; and act 4, the “endless migration” of post-occupation diaspora that continues into the present as an…
Haiti’s Elusive Paradise
This chapter focuses on the Edenic garden, a ubiquitous trope in which artists from Haiti merge African and New World ecologies in their visual mapping of place. More precisely, it explores the implications of the Edenic garden for the environmental and economic devastation of Haiti. It also considers the link between the Haitian artists’ idealized landscape paintings and global tourism in Haiti. Finally, it discusses the economics, politics, lin…
A Queen in Diaspora
A Queen in Diaspora:The Sorrowful Exile of Queen Marie-Louise Christophe (1778, Ouanaminth, Haiti–March 11, 1851, Pisa, Italy)1 LeGrace Benson On March 11, 1851, having made her last confession and received Extreme Unction and Viaticum, la principessa nera della Russia passed from this life. There was a requiem Mass followed by interment at a side altar of the Capuchin chapel of San Donnino, beside her daughters, Améthyste [d. 1831] and Athénaïre…
Tina Girouard et l'art des sequins d'Haïti
Les œuvres en sequins réalisées par Tina Girouard sont le fruit de plusieurs années d'une collaboration toute familiale avec les artistes du Bel Air en Haïti. Mais ces pièces, qu'elles aient été créées lors de son séjour là-bas ou plus tard, portent indéniablement la marque de l'artiste. En retour, son influence sur les artistes du Bel Air a eu pour effet de promouvoir leur style personnel, de les encourager à signer leur production et de déploye…
Haiti at the Grand Palais, Paris
Haiti at the Grand Palais, Paris LeGrace Benson Haïti : Deux siècles de création artistique. Exhibition, Grand Palais, Paris, November 2014– February 2015. Haïti : Deux siècles de création artistique (catalogue of the exhibition). By Mireille Pérodin-Jérôme and Régine Cuzin. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2014. ISBN 9782711861590. 231 pp. €39 cloth. This intelligently designed exposition of Haitian art and its thoughtful catalogue tell stor…
Le Précepteur du Prince-Royal Victor-Henry by William Wilson
Reviewed by: Le Précepteur du Prince-Royal Victor-Henryby William Wilson LeGrace Benson Le Précepteur du Prince-Royal Victor-Henry. By William Wilson. Translated byMarie-Thérèse Chenet and Lucienne Zennie. Port-au-Prince: Imprimerie Henri Deschamps, 2020. 72pages. ISBN: 9993503614, 9789993503613. 650 gourdes. Close to the two-hundredth anniversary of the death of Henry Christophe and the fall of the Kingdom of Haiti, Musée du Panthéon National Ha…
Staging Eden; Staging Power
A uniquely successful slave revolt enabled King Henry (Christophe) I to lead an engagement with native plants, animals including humans, built structures, and landscaped gardens in The Kingdom of Haiti, a tropical country liberated from colonial rule. The new ruler’s political and economic exigencies and hopes had points of both collaboration and contention with the expectations of the new citizens. He would make full use of both local traditiona…
Pòtoprens
Reviewed by: Pòtoprens: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince/Atis nan vil Pòtoprens ed. by Leah Gordon and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro LeGrace Benson Pòtoprens: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince/Atis nan vil Pòtoprens. Edited by Leah Gordon and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, with additional essays by Edouard Duval-Carrié and Gina Ulysse. Brooklyn, NY: Pioneer Works, 2021. ISBN: 978-1945711060. 416 pp. $55 hardcover. Even before beginning to read the text, it …
Marasa
This special issue on Haiti's environment and a recently created working group within the Haitian Studies Association (HSA) share a birth year: 2020. The pair had their conception during HSA's 2016 conference in Cap-Haïtien, "Haiti's Eco-systems: Focus on Environmental Realities and Hopes." The meeting in Cap-Haïtien demonstrated a significant interest in the environment of Haiti and its challenges. Members responded to the call with papers, pane…
Ecological Disquisitions on Six Paintings by Edouard Jean
Capois artist Edouard Jean (1953-) created this group of paintings especially for a Haitian Studies Association conference, held in Cap-Haïtien in 2016, with the environment as its central theme. Jean is among the artists who were students and then colleagues of Philomé Obin, founder of the "School of the North History Painters." Many of Jean's works depict scenes of Haitian history, and he has been observed walking about with a rolled-up copy of…
How Multiple Textures of Daily Life Created a Singular Nation
Theatre Econiches
This essay reports on cumulative observations and participation in material theatres and the human behaviours that these locales afford. The central theoretical stance is primarily from the standpoint of James J. Gibson's theories of ecological perception and subsequent developments by researchers working from the same or similar points of view. The concept of presentation uses Sociologist Erving Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Lif…
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