Description: A beautifully illustrated look at the aesthetics and implications of the visual images used to sell Jamaica and the Bahamas to tourists as "tropical paradises" from the 1880s through the 1930s.
Review Quotes: "One of the first studies to critically interrogate the visual culture of the Caribbean through the lens of both popular art and fine art, it's an important book that, no doubt, will continue to force the question of an distinct Caribbean art history, singular from a similarly contentious, African American chronicle, and impacted by the parallel histories of economic underdevelopment in the region and Western nostalgia for a present-day, accessible paradise."--Richard J. Powell "Small Axe"