Swollen detail, or what a vessel might give: Agostino Brunias and the visual and material culture of colonial Dominica

IF 0.3 Q2 HISTORY
S. Thomas, N. Eaton
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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.
肿胀的细节,或船只可能带来的东西:Agostino Brunias与殖民地多米尼克的视觉和物质文化
摘要本文探讨了如何在物质文化的同时对殖民地的视觉意象进行审问,以恢复对被奴役者日常生活的一些了解。它鼓励人们关注迄今为止被学者忽视的物质痕迹:运送淡水的容器。如果考古学家专注于罐子的有形遗迹,我们建议艺术表现也可以为日常生活提供见解。细节已经成为艺术史上一个反复出现的主题,正是因为它提供了一种方法,使日常生活中的卑微事物成为人们关注的焦点。在这里,我们将关注细节作为一种重新思考殖民视觉文化的方式,重点关注多米尼克长期居民、专业艺术家Agostino Brunias的作品。
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