Colouring the Caribbean - Race and the Art of Agostino Brunias

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Mia L Bagneris, Mia L. Bagneris
• Assisted by: Amelia Jones (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781526120458
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2045-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Rethinking Art's Histories; Rethinking Arts Histories Mup; Rethinking Art's Histories; Rethinking Arts Histories Mup
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history