xv, 256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Brunias's tarred brush, or painting Indians black : race-ing the Carib divide -- Merry and contented slaves and other island myths : representing Africans and Afro-Creoles in the Anglo-American world -- Brown-skinned booty, or colonising Diana : mixed-race Venuses and Vixens as the fruits of imperial enterprise -- 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.
Subject Terms:
Brunias, Agostino -- Criticism and interpretation. | Race in art. | Imperialism in art. | West Indies -- In art. | West Indies -- Race relations -- History.