Mia L. Bagneris

Colouring the Caribbean (eBook, ePUB)

Race and the art of Agostino Brunias

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first monographic study of the painter Agostino Brunias, this book offers a compelling, original analysis of his representation of race in the British colonial West Indies, reconsidering the way in which the artist's oeuvre has previously been understood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• 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