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.
Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia questions what might be ideas of vertiginous collecting, art making and museums as expanded fields, including wonder houses, missionary museums or museobuses, in Britain and South Asia.
Natasha Eaton theorizes the relationship between art and empire through analysis of the interconnected visual cultures of British and Mughal empires in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century India.