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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University College London : A - History of Art
Colour, Art and Empire: Visual Culture and the Nomadism of Representation
Research imperatives and process: Colour, Art and Empire explores the question of colour in a range of geopolitical contexts, taking as its focus revolutionary, nationalist and communist struggles in 20th-century India. Offering an interdisciplinary argument for a politics of affect, the book is the first to examine the relation of colour and empire within the field of colonial studies. It is based on extensive archival research undertaken in London and Cambridge archives as well as Indian museums and art schools in West Bengal. The research was funded by a Philip Leverhulme Prize and a Paul Mellon Centre Fellowship. In its initial stages the book project was awarded a Clark Art Institute Fellowship. A brief summary of the book was invited to be one of the essays in ‘Notes from the Field’, in The Art Bulletin, March 2013.
