Coda – Pushing Brunias’s buttons, or rebranding the plantocracy’s painter: the afterlife of Brunias’s imagery
Coda – Pushing Brunias’s buttons, or rebranding the plantocracy’s painter: the afterlife of Brunias’s imagery
The concluding chapter reiterates the major contentions of the previous chapters and examines the diverse ends to which Brunias’s images have been appropriated almost from the very moment of their creation. It opens with an investigation of a set of painted buttons in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum that have been attributed to Brunias and are purported to have adorned the coat of Toussaint L’Ouverture, leader of the successful Haitian slave rebellion against France. Ultimately, the chapter asserts that the fact Brunias’s work can be simultaneously described as plantocratic propaganda and as fashion fit for a Haitian revolutionary points to its complexity and continuing historical importance.
Keywords: Buttons, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Toussaint L’Ouverture
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