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Colouring the Caribbean offers the first comprehensive study of Agostino Brunias's West Indian paintings. Working primarily in St. Vincent and Dominica at the end of the eighteenth century, Brunias painted for plantocrats and the colonial elite, creating romanticised pictures that featured Caribbeans of colour - so called 'Red' and 'Black' Carib Indians, dark-skinned Africans and Afro-Creoles, and people of mixed race. The book explores the full scope of these images, investigating their role in reifying then inchoate notions of race. Perceived as straightforward documents of visual ethnography, Brunias's paintings have generally been understood as visual field guides for reading race in the colonial West Indies. While accepting this as the ostensible raison d'être behind Brunias's commissions, the book investigates how the artist's images both reflected and refracted ideas about race commonly held by eighteenth-century Britons, helping to construct racial categories while simultaneously exposing their constructedness and underscoring their contradictions. A commitment to close visual analysis grounds the entire project; however, various relevant critical lenses and an interdisciplinary array of materials including period historical and literary texts and secondary scholarship from a variety of fields inform the book's interpretations and conclusions. Moreover, Colouring the Caribbean offers provocative new insights about Brunias's work gleaned from a broad survey of the artist's paintings, many of which are reproduced here for the first time. Finally, the book considers the enduring significance of the Brunias's flexible imagery, which has been simultaneously characterised as plantocratic propaganda and seen as fit to adorn the coat of rebel slave leader Toussaint L'Ouverture. A critical addition to the bookshelves of historians of the art and visual culture of the Anglo-American world, Colouring the Caribbean will interest scholars in race and gender studies, African diaspora studies, Atlantic world studies, slavery studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, and eighteenth-century studies as well.
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Colouring the Caribbean offers the first comprehensive study of Agostino Brunias's West Indian paintings. Working primarily in St. Vincent and Dominica at the end of the eighteenth century, Brunias painted for plantocrats and the colonial elite, creating romanticised pictures that featured Caribbeans of colour - so called 'Red' and 'Black' Carib Indians, dark-skinned Africans and Afro-Creoles, and people of mixed race. The book explores the full scope of these images, investigating their role in reifying then inchoate notions of race. Perceived as straightforward documents of visual ethnography, Brunias's paintings have generally been understood as visual field guides for reading race in the colonial West Indies. While accepting this as the ostensible raison d'être behind Brunias's commissions, the book investigates how the artist's images both reflected and refracted ideas about race commonly held by eighteenth-century Britons, helping to construct racial categories while simultaneously exposing their constructedness and underscoring their contradictions. A commitment to close visual analysis grounds the entire project; however, various relevant critical lenses and an interdisciplinary array of materials including period historical and literary texts and secondary scholarship from a variety of fields inform the book's interpretations and conclusions. Moreover, Colouring the Caribbean offers provocative new insights about Brunias's work gleaned from a broad survey of the artist's paintings, many of which are reproduced here for the first time. Finally, the book considers the enduring significance of the Brunias's flexible imagery, which has been simultaneously characterised as plantocratic propaganda and seen as fit to adorn the coat of rebel slave leader Toussaint L'Ouverture. A critical addition to the bookshelves of historians of the art and visual culture of the Anglo-American world, Colouring the Caribbean will interest scholars in race and gender studies, African diaspora studies, Atlantic world studies, slavery studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, and eighteenth-century studies as well.
Author Biography
Amelia Jones is Robert A. Day Professor of Art and Design and Vice Dean of Critical Studies at the Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date December 2017
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526120465 / 1526120461
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPDF
- ReadershipGeneral/trade
- Publish StatusPublished
- SeriesRethinking Art's Histories
- Reference Code9689
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