But beyond that, little, if any, recognition has been given to Rastafarian art as a particular genre within Jamaica, and the only known attempt to document and survey the art and handicraft of Rastafarians was in the form of an exhibition catalogue prepared for an exhibition in Germany in 1980 and updated 11 years later for a second exhibition for the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin Germany.
Now, almost 25 years after that first catalogue was produced, comes its first English translation. The works presented in this volume are meant to introduce a selection of Rastafarian artists from Jamaica. The collection is accompanied by photographs that depict everyday life among Jamaican Rastas and scenes from the environment in which the artists live. In addition there are interviews with a number of the artists, a chronology of events in the development of the Rastafarian movement and Rastafarian art, and an index of the artists and their works.
