Mia L. Bagneris

Colouring the Caribbean (eBook, ePUB)

Race and the art of Agostino Brunias

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Colouring the Caribbean offers the first comprehensive study of Agostino Brunias's intriguing pictures of colonial West Indians of colour - so called 'Red' and 'Black' Caribs, dark-skinned Africans and Afro-Creoles, and people of mixed race - made for colonial officials and plantocratic elites during the late-eighteenth century. Although Brunias's paintings have often been understood as straightforward documents of visual ethnography that functioned as field guides for reading race, this book investigates how the 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. The book offers provocative new insights about Brunias's work gleaned from a broad survey of his paintings, many of which are reproduced here for the first time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526120472
• Artikelnr.: 57471376

Autorenporträt

Mia L. Bagneris is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Art History and Director of the Africana Studies Program at Tulane University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Brunias's tarred brush, or painting Indians black: race
ing the Carib divide 2 Merry and contented slaves and other island myths: representing Africans and Afro
Creoles in the Anglo
American world 3 Brown
skinned booty, or colonising Diana: mixed
race Venuses and Vixens as the fruits of imperial enterprise 4 Can you find the white woman in this picture? Agostino Brunias's 'ladies' of ambiguous race Coda
Pushing Brunias's buttons, or re
branding the plantocracy's painter: the afterlife of Brunias's imagery Index