Natasha Eaton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 169027 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Natasha Eaton |
| PRENOMES | Natasha |
| SOBRENOME | Eaton |
| ASSINATURA | EATON N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College London |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Zinc Vignettes
This article explores the agency (often self-effacing) of zinc as the critical material and currency of British imperialism. For Primo Levi zinc embodies a rite of passage between metals and his own sense of autobiography. Known as the Philosopher’s Snow, zinc can be conceived as soft or, as Roland Barthes would say, the embodiment of The Neutral. My discussion is concerned with the genealogies of zinc in Zawar (Rajasthan) and Guizhou Province, C…
Swollen detail, or what a vessel might give
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 livin…
Materiality of Color
Partitions Special Issue
This introduction examines the contested histories of Partitions in South Asia with an emphasis on memory and the line, the map and the museum. The map is read variously as a decolonial device through the works of contemporary artists such as Gulammohamed Sheikh's ongoing project ‘Mappa Mundi’ which uses psychogeography as a cosmopolitan palimpsest for exploring the rich layered histories of artistic production, mysticism and magic realism. The l…
Anachronism's Mimetic Magic
In search of pearlescence
This article explores pearls as an allegorical device for thinking about British colonial art and economy in the later 19th century in South Asia. It takes as its focus elite and subaltern attempts to utilise pearls as a form of 'armature' and mode of resistance through an analysis of south Indian fisheries, the use of pearls in coercive portraiture and their 'blind spot' appearance in a well-publicised legal case for treason. The article argues …
Chromophobic Activism
This article examines the contested agency of colour in twentieth-century South Asian nationalism and its afterlife in the postcolony. Questioning the entanglements of chromophobia and chromophilia it focuses on colour's volatile status as it veered between poetic and political acceptance by Abanindranath Tagore, Gandhi's seeming abhorrence of any colour but white, Rabindranath Tagore's claim to colour blindness and recourse to inky cosmopolitani…
Excess in the City? The Consumption of Imported Prints in Colonial Calcutta, c. 1780–c. 1795
This article examines the role of imported prints in early colonial Calcutta. It explores the critical entanglements of this art of mechanical reproduction within the cosmopolitics of imperialism. Questioning the 18th-century ‘consumer revolution ’ and contemporary ‘actor network theory’, it asks whether either help us to comprehend fully these picture–human relations. In time of economic boom and recession within this early East India Company st…
Colour, Art and Empire
Introduction: Chromo Zones and the Nomadism of Colour 1.Alchemy, Painting and Revolution in India, c.150-1860 2.Supplement, Subaltern Art, Design and Dyeing in Britain and South Asia, c.1851-c.1905 3.Part 1: Still Dreaming of the Blue Flower? Race, Anthropology and the Colour Sense Part 2: Creole Laboratory: Anthropology and Affect in the Torres Strait 4.Swadeshi Colour Throughout the Philtre/Filter of Indian Nationalism, c.1905- c. 1947
Virtual witnessing? Balthazar Solvyns and the navigation of precision, c.1790–1840
Nomadism of colour
This article explores the contested ‘nomadic’ agency of colour in relation to colonialism in northern and eastern India. The author argues that colour provides us with a vital, if underexplored, field for analysing technologies of enchantment and questions of scarcity and waste in relation to the fundamental centrality of art to imperialism. Her intervention considers the ways in which the fetish, alchemy, alien(ating) material practices on the p…
Enchanted Traps?' The Historiography of Art and Colonialism in Eighteenth-century India
This essay examines the visual culture of 18th-century India in the light of recent historiographical debates in art history, postcolonial studies and anthropology. It seeks to highlight the exciting new developments in this long neglected field to explore how and why scholars of the visual are now rising to the challenge of the 'imperial turn'. My argument foregrounds the relationship between knowledge, power and representation before turning to…
A Flash of Recognition into How Not to Be Governed
Nostalgia for the Exotic
Focused on the entanglement of nostalgia and the exotic, this article explores the dramatic transformation of British perception and consumption of Indian images. In this era of colonial emergence and political emergency, both nostalgia and the exotic would be transferred from the rarity of mercantilism to the artifact of imperialism. While nostalgia retained a sense of homesickness for colonial communities overseas, as a manifestation of histori…
Between Mimesis and Alterity
Today cultural thingness is on the agenda. What Appadurai has called 'methodological fetishism' has become the byword for a new type of inquiry into the ontology of possession and circulation of things. Of these, the Maussian 'gift' has emerged as an organizing topos for other institutions of exchange not structured by the contractual rationality of commodity
Excess in the City
This article examines the role of imported prints in early colonial Calcutta. It explores the critical entanglements of this art of mechanical reproduction within the cosmopolitics of imperialism. Questioning the 18th-century 'consumer revolution' and contemporary 'actor network theory', it asks whether either help us to comprehend fully these picture-human relations. In time of economic boom and recession within this early East India Company sta…
Nomadism of colour
This article explores the contested ‘nomadic’ agency of colour in relation to colonialism in northern and eastern India. The author argues that colour provides us with a vital, if underexplored, field for analysing technologies of enchantment and questions of scarcity and waste in relation to the fundamental centrality of art to imperialism. Her intervention considers the ways in which the fetish, alchemy, alien(ating) material practices on the p…
Between Mimesis and Alterity
Today cultural thingness is on the agenda. What Appadurai has called 'methodological fetishism' has become the byword for a new type of inquiry into the ontology of possession and circulation of things. Of these, the Maussian 'gift' has emerged as an organizing topos for other institutions of exchange not structured by the contractual rationality of commodity
Excess in the City
This article examines the role of imported prints in early colonial Calcutta. It explores the critical entanglements of this art of mechanical reproduction within the cosmopolitics of imperialism. Questioning the 18th-century 'consumer revolution' and contemporary 'actor network theory', it asks whether either help us to comprehend fully these picture-human relations. In time of economic boom and recession within this early East India Company sta…
Nostalgia for the Exotic
Focused on the entanglement of nostalgia and the exotic, this article explores the dramatic transformation of British perception and consumption of Indian images. In this era of colonial emergence and political emergency, both nostalgia and the exotic would be transferred from the rarity of mercantilism to the artifact of imperialism. While nostalgia retained a sense of homesickness for colonial communities overseas, as a manifestation of histori…
Enchanted Traps?' The Historiography of Art and Colonialism in Eighteenth-century India
This essay examines the visual culture of 18th-century India in the light of recent historiographical debates in art history, postcolonial studies and anthropology. It seeks to highlight the exciting new developments in this long neglected field to explore how and why scholars of the visual are now rising to the challenge of the 'imperial turn'. My argument foregrounds the relationship between knowledge, power and representation before turning to…
Partitions Special Issue
This introduction examines the contested histories of Partitions in South Asia with an emphasis on memory and the line, the map and the museum. The map is read variously as a decolonial device through the works of contemporary artists such as Gulammohamed Sheikh's ongoing project ‘Mappa Mundi’ which uses psychogeography as a cosmopolitan palimpsest for exploring the rich layered histories of artistic production, mysticism and magic realism. The l…
In search of pearlescence
This article explores pearls as an allegorical device for thinking about British colonial art and economy in the later 19th century in South Asia. It takes as its focus elite and subaltern attempts to utilise pearls as a form of 'armature' and mode of resistance through an analysis of south Indian fisheries, the use of pearls in coercive portraiture and their 'blind spot' appearance in a well-publicised legal case for treason. The article argues …
Excess in the City
This article examines the role of imported prints in early colonial Calcutta. It explores the critical entanglements of this art of mechanical reproduction within the cosmopolitics of imperialism. Questioning the 18th-century 'consumer revolution' and contemporary 'actor network theory', it asks whether either help us to comprehend fully these picture-human relations. In time of economic boom and recession within this early East India Company sta…
Between Mimesis and Alterity
Today cultural thingness is on the agenda. What Appadurai has called 'methodological fetishism' has become the byword for a new type of inquiry into the ontology of possession and circulation of things. Of these, the Maussian 'gift' has emerged as an organizing topos for other institutions of exchange not structured by the contractual rationality of commodity
Nostalgia for the Exotic
Focused on the entanglement of nostalgia and the exotic, this article explores the dramatic transformation of British perception and consumption of Indian images. In this era of colonial emergence and political emergency, both nostalgia and the exotic would be transferred from the rarity of mercantilism to the artifact of imperialism. While nostalgia retained a sense of homesickness for colonial communities overseas, as a manifestation of histori…
A Flash of Recognition into How Not to Be Governed
Nomadism of colour
This article explores the contested ‘nomadic’ agency of colour in relation to colonialism in northern and eastern India. The author argues that colour provides us with a vital, if underexplored, field for analysing technologies of enchantment and questions of scarcity and waste in relation to the fundamental centrality of art to imperialism. Her intervention considers the ways in which the fetish, alchemy, alien(ating) material practices on the p…
Enchanted Traps?' The Historiography of Art and Colonialism in Eighteenth-century India
This essay examines the visual culture of 18th-century India in the light of recent historiographical debates in art history, postcolonial studies and anthropology. It seeks to highlight the exciting new developments in this long neglected field to explore how and why scholars of the visual are now rising to the challenge of the 'imperial turn'. My argument foregrounds the relationship between knowledge, power and representation before turning to…
Excess in the City? The Consumption of Imported Prints in Colonial Calcutta, c. 1780–c. 1795
This article examines the role of imported prints in early colonial Calcutta. It explores the critical entanglements of this art of mechanical reproduction within the cosmopolitics of imperialism. Questioning the 18th-century ‘consumer revolution ’ and contemporary ‘actor network theory’, it asks whether either help us to comprehend fully these picture–human relations. In time of economic boom and recession within this early East India Company st…
Colour, Art and Empire
Introduction: Chromo Zones and the Nomadism of Colour 1.Alchemy, Painting and Revolution in India, c.150-1860 2.Supplement, Subaltern Art, Design and Dyeing in Britain and South Asia, c.1851-c.1905 3.Part 1: Still Dreaming of the Blue Flower? Race, Anthropology and the Colour Sense Part 2: Creole Laboratory: Anthropology and Affect in the Torres Strait 4.Swadeshi Colour Throughout the Philtre/Filter of Indian Nationalism, c.1905- c. 1947
Virtual witnessing? Balthazar Solvyns and the navigation of precision, c.1790–1840
Chromophobic Activism
This article examines the contested agency of colour in twentieth-century South Asian nationalism and its afterlife in the postcolony. Questioning the entanglements of chromophobia and chromophilia it focuses on colour's volatile status as it veered between poetic and political acceptance by Abanindranath Tagore, Gandhi's seeming abhorrence of any colour but white, Rabindranath Tagore's claim to colour blindness and recourse to inky cosmopolitani…
Anachronism's Mimetic Magic
In search of pearlescence
This article explores pearls as an allegorical device for thinking about British colonial art and economy in the later 19th century in South Asia. It takes as its focus elite and subaltern attempts to utilise pearls as a form of 'armature' and mode of resistance through an analysis of south Indian fisheries, the use of pearls in coercive portraiture and their 'blind spot' appearance in a well-publicised legal case for treason. The article argues …
Partitions Special Issue
This introduction examines the contested histories of Partitions in South Asia with an emphasis on memory and the line, the map and the museum. The map is read variously as a decolonial device through the works of contemporary artists such as Gulammohamed Sheikh's ongoing project ‘Mappa Mundi’ which uses psychogeography as a cosmopolitan palimpsest for exploring the rich layered histories of artistic production, mysticism and magic realism. The l…
Materiality of Color
Swollen detail, or what a vessel might give
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 livin…
Zinc Vignettes
This article explores the agency (often self-effacing) of zinc as the critical material and currency of British imperialism. For Primo Levi zinc embodies a rite of passage between metals and his own sense of autobiography. Known as the Philosopher’s Snow, zinc can be conceived as soft or, as Roland Barthes would say, the embodiment of The Neutral. My discussion is concerned with the genealogies of zinc in Zawar (Rajasthan) and Guizhou Province, C…
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