Thomas, Sarah;
Eaton, Natasha;
(2022)
Swollen detail, or what a vessel might give: Agostino Brunias and the visual and material culture of colonial Dominica.
Atlantic Studies
, 19
(1)
pp. 60-85.
10.1080/14788810.2021.1930773.
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Abstract
This essay asks how colonial visual imagery might be interrogated alongside material culture in order to recover some knowledge of the quotidian lives of the enslaved. It encourages viewing that focuses on the material traces hitherto neglected by scholars: vessels for carrying fresh water. If archaeologists have focused on the tangible remains of pots, we suggest ways in which artistic representation might also offer insights into everyday living. Detail has become a recurrent theme in Art History precisely because it offers a methodology which allows the humble things of the everyday to become the focus of attention. Here we explore attention to detail as a way of thinking anew about colonial visual culture, focussing on the work of professional artist Agostino Brunias, a long-term resident of Dominica.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Swollen detail, or what a vessel might give: Agostino Brunias and the visual and material culture of colonial Dominica |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14788810.2021.1930773 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2021.1930773 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Agostino Brunias, enslaved life, Dominica, vessel, gourd, colonial material culture, colonial Caribbean visual culture |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History of Art |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10187837 |
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