Extract
Two Lectures by Clr James
Both Lectures delivered as part of an Open Lecture series at the University College of the West Indies (UCWI), Mona, in the Michaelmas Term (1959-60).
The Artist In The Caribbean"The Artist in the Caribbean". . . This was the subject of a talk that I gave a few days ago at the U. W. I. and it was followed by as lively and fruitful a discussion of a literary topic as I can remember. Briefly what I had to say was this. Not so much in so many words but in the very approach I made, 1 tried to make it clear that the basis of our ideas on aesthetics and artistic development was the basis of our civilization. It was western European. I went on to say that in my opinion the great artist was the fruit of a long national tradition social and to some degree artistic. I tried to make it clear next that he had an enormous influence upon the life of his time; it had always been so; but particularly in a country like ours he was very much needed....See the full content of this document
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