LEADER 04551nam 2200685 450 001 9910791313503321 005 20191118111955.0 010 $a0-85773-419-9 010 $a0-7556-0353-2 010 $a0-85772-276-X 024 7 $a10.5040/9780755603534 035 $a(CKB)2550000001247379 035 $a(EBL)3012090 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001234765 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12424645 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001234765 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11222838 035 $a(PQKB)10524046 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3012090 035 $a(CaBNVSL)mat55603534 035 $a(OCoLC)1128167842 035 $a(CaBNVSL)9780755603534 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001247379 100 $a20191118d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aColour, Art and Empire $eVisual Culture and the Nomadism of Representation /$fNatasha Eaton 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aLondon, England :$cI.B. Tauris,$d2019. 210 2$a[London, England] :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (432 p.) 225 1 $aInternational library of visual culture ;$v12 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-78076-519-3 311 $a1-306-50417-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Chromo Zones and the Nomadism of Colour -- 1. Alchemy, Painting and Revolution in India, c. 1750-1860 -- 2. Supplement, Subaltern Art, Design and Dyeingin Britain and South Asia, c.1851-c.1905 -- 3. Part 1: Still Dreaming of the Blue Flower? Race, Anthropology and the Colour Sense -- 3. Part 2: Creole Laboratory: Anthropology and Affect in the Torres Strait -- 4. Swadeshi Colour Through the Philtre/Filter of Indian Nationalism, c.1905-c.1947 -- Postscript with a Rag and a Knife -- Notes -- Index. 330 $a"Colour, Art and Empire explores the entanglements of visual culture, enchanted technologies, waste, revolution, resistance and otherness. The materiality of colour offers a critical and timely force-field for approaching afresh debates on colonialism. This book analyses the formation of colour and politics as qualitative overspill. Colour can be viewed both as central and supplemental to early photography, the totem, alchemy, tantra and mysticism. From the eighteenth-century Austrian Empress Maria Theresa to Rabindranath Tagore and Gandhi, to 1970s Bollywood, colour makes us adjust our take on the politics of the human sensorium as defamiliarising and disorienting. The four chapters conjecture how European, Indian and Papua New Guinean artists, writers, scientists, activists, anthropologists or their subjects sought to negotiate the highly problematic stasis of colour in the repainting of modernity. Specifically, the thesis of this book traces Europeans' admiration and emulation of what they termed 'Indian colour' to its gradual denigration and the emergence of a 'space of exception'. This space of exception pitted industrial colours against the colonial desire for a massive workforce whose slave-like exploitation ignited riots against the production of pigments - most notably indigo. Feared or derided, the figure of the vernacular dyer constituted a force capable of dismantling the imperial machinations of colour. Colour thus wreaks havoc with Western expectations of biological determinism, objectivity and eugenics. Beyond the cracks of such discursive practice, colour becomes a sentient and nomadic retort to be pitted against a perceived colonial hegemony. The ideological reinvention of colour as a resource for independence struggles make it fundamental to multivalent genealogies of artistic and political action and their relevance to the present."--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aInternational library of visual culture ;$v12. 517 3 $aColor, Art and Empire 606 $aArt$xPolitical aspects 606 $aColonies in art 606 $aColor in art 606 $aArt styles not defined by date$2bicssc 615 0$aArt$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aColonies in art. 615 0$aColor in art. 615 7$aArt styles not defined by date 676 $a701.03 700 $aEaton$b Natasha$01488063 801 0$bOTZ 801 1$bCaBNVSL 801 2$bCaBNVSL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791313503321 996 $aColour, Art and Empire$93708256 997 $aUNINA