Colouring the Caribbean

Race and the Art of Agostino Brunias

Mia L. Bagneris

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English

Manchester University Press
04 December 2017

History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800

Series: Rethinking Art's Histories

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. -- .

By: Mia L. Bagneris
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 699g
ISBN: 9781526120458
ISBN 10: 1526120453
Series: Rethinking Art's Histories
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 04 December 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Reviews for Colouring the Caribbean: Race and the Art of Agostino Brunias

'In her lush visual analyses, Bagneris artfully deploys twenty-first century language to describe eighteenth-century pictures-a mixed-race planter is dressed to beat the heat ; skin tones range from dark chocolate to vanilla cream ; and some figures may be pale, but, then again, not as pale as all that (1, 157, 2-3)-as if to remind us that Brunias's paintings belong as much to our present as they do to the past. As scholars continue to explore his works and the visual culture of which they were a part, Bagneris's text is sure to become a key point of reference and departure.' Meredith Gamer, Columbia University, Collage Art Association, March 2019 'Bagneris's study of Brunias is energetic and stimulating.' New West Indian Guide 'Bagneris's purpose . is to complicate the univocal reading of these images and to interpret them as pro-slavery statements . the paintings manifest all the complexity and ambivalence of the system of racial classification of late-eighteenth-century British colonialism.' Perspective -- .