ARTH 260 * Introduction to Art History * Professor Sarah Benson * Spring 2005
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PAPER 1
Analysis of a painting
For this assignment you will analyze a painting at the Johnson Museum of Art and compare it to works in an outside reading that will be assigned. You will also practice using post-colonial theory, an art-historical approach that you will discuss in section during WEEK 3.
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Painting:
Augustin BRUNIAS (Italian, c. 1730-1796), View of Roseau Valley, Island of Dominica, Showing Africans, Carib Indians, and Creole Planters , c. 1770-1796. Oil on canvas. 59.088 {2 nd floor}
Readings:
* Beth Fowkes TOBIN, "Taxonomy and Agency in Brunias's West Indian Paintings." In Picturing Imperial Power: Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-Century British Painting . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999, pp. 137-173.
* Anne D'ALLEVA. "Cultural Studies and postcolonial theory." In Look! Again: Art History and Critical Theory . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2005, pp. 76-86.
