International audienceThis book studies the universe of Haitian plastic creation over time, since the arrival in 1492 of the first Spanish conquerors in this territory, the western third of the island, which they renamed Hispaniola. To carry out his investigation, Carlo A. Célius questions, overcomes, and reverses the discourses and representations that have been made since Western Europe, which have continuously qualified and classified all non-European artistic creation using criteria specific to the field of fine arts.The history of the modes of figuration proposed here is also the history of the monopolization, the exploitation and the transformation of a territory, a history of migrations, of subjection and extermination of populations...