COLOUR, ART AND EMPIRE: VISUAL CULTURE AND THE NOMADISM OF REPRESENTATION
Book ID/图书代码： 06545014B67325
English Summary/英文概要： 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. Colour 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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《色彩、艺术与帝国》探索了视觉文化、迷人的科技、荒原、抵抗的种种令人纠结的纷繁复杂之处。色彩的物质性为接近殖民主义并就其展开全新的探讨提供了一个决定性与时间性兼具的力场。本书就因人口过剩而形成的多余色彩和政治展开分析。色彩，既可以被看做是早期图画、图腾、炼金术、密教哲学以及神秘主义的中心，也可以将其看作是对其的一种补充。从18世纪的奥地利女皇玛利亚•特雷西亚到拉宾德拉耐特•泰戈尔与甘地，再到20世纪70年代的宝莱坞，色彩改变了我们对于人类大脑皮层的政治学看法：经过艺术加工后的事物显得更为陌生和令人无所适从。随着西方对生物遗传学、客观学和优生学的期望，色彩可谓引发了一场混乱。在这些发散性实践以失败告终后，色彩成为了意识和流浪的一种反击，被用来同情那些可以被感受到的殖民统治行为。人们重新改造色彩的思想意识形态，将其改造成了一个独立斗争的源泉，使其从此成为了艺术大家谱中多价值存在的基础，并对政治行为及其与当下的关系同样起着基础性的作用。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：伊顿用色彩这一课题创造出了与殖民主义及后殖民主义文化及物质世界的一场大胆、极具启发性并令人炫目的全新相遇。本书尤其关注南亚地区，指引我们去思考色彩、艺术和帝国方方面面的内在关系，揭露帝国版图里的简单同化法则。其中，伊顿用来引导我们穿梭于迷宫般错综复杂的色彩和殖民世界的丰富方法实则是非常简单的，但却会令你不由得惊叹。 [莎拉•维多利亚•图那，英国约克大学艺术史讲师]
在这部精彩绝伦且极具阅读价值的书中，娜塔莎•伊顿极其睿智的为我们分析了色彩，作为一种美学工具，是如何被应用在印度当地的殖民空间中，以进行协商、组织、展示并延续的，其操纵者不仅有印度当地艺术家，同时还有欧洲的艺术家们。伊顿为我们解开了色彩，作为一种实际物质、一种灵感的表达以及一种选择标志，其背后的复杂性之谜，更重要的是，它还是一种国民敏感度的标准。[罗米塔•雷，美国雪城大学艺术史副教授]
书中的文章均有着丰富的表现层次，读来令人眼花缭乱，晕眩不已，随着时间的推移和阅读的深入，你将发现其中充满了颇富洞见的启发因素.伊顿对于古文物的狂热痴迷和独一无二的灵活见解将碰发出令人难以置信的独特组合，并呈现在我们眼前。作者在此处使用棱角柱的方式构建出了一个几乎令人难忘的迷幻世界，勾勒出一条条模糊的界限与区域，并清晰而尖锐的使其呈现在我们的面前。 --克里斯托弗•潘尼，英国伦敦大学学院人类学及视觉文化教授
Eaton uses the topic of colour to create daring, provocative and dazzling new encounters with colonial and postcolonial cultural and material worlds. With a particular focus on South Asia, this book asks us to think about the interrelation of colour, art and empire in ways which explode any easy exoticisation of the imperial palette. The spectrum of ideas which Eaton uses to guide us through the labyrinthine entanglement of colour and colonialism is simply breathtaking. [Sarah Victoria Turner, Lecturer in History of Art, University of York, UK]
In this fascinating and highly readable book, Natasha Eaton gives us a brilliant analysis of colour as an aesthetic tool with which colonial spaces and bodies were negotiated, organised, displayed and resisted in India, by both Indian and European artists. Eaton unpacks the complexities of colour as a material substance, an intuitive expression, a sign of alterity and, as importantly, a paradigm of nationalist sensibility. [Romita Ray, Associate Professor of Art History, Syracuse University, USA]
These are richly hued and dazzling essays, simmering with insightful provocations. Eaton s antiquarian fascination and exceptional conceptual agility generate fabulous alignments and juxtapositions. The prism used here makes a world we had almost forgotten vital and compelling, drawing blurred margins through the mind s indigo and rendering them with acuity. --Christopher Pinney, Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture, University College London, UK
About the Author/作者介绍： 娜塔莎•伊顿是一名英国伦敦大学学院的艺术史讲师。她专攻18世纪及19世纪英国艺术及南亚地区的视觉文化，著有《帝国模拟：印度艺术作品与网络，1765-1860》(2013)。Natasha Eaton is Lecturer in History of Art, University College London. She specialises in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British art and the visual culture of South Asia, and is the author of Mimesis Across Empires: Artworks and Networks in India, 1765 1860 (2013).
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