Francis Newton Souza and Aubrey Williams: Entwined Art Histories at the End of Empire

Wainwright, Leon (2006). Francis Newton Souza and Aubrey Williams: Entwined Art Histories at the End of Empire. In: Faulkner, Simon and Ramamurthy, Anandi eds. Visual Culture and Decolonisation in Britain. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 101–126.

Abstract

The protracted twentieth-century moment of the end of empire saw the arrival in Britain of a number of creative individuals from its colonies and newly independent states. This chapter analyses what a critical and aesthetic analysis might look like for just two artists of this generation: Francis Newton Souza, who came from Bombay in 1949, and Aubrey Williams, who made his first visit from British Guiana in 1952. It explores the shifting locations of Souza's and Williams' art and the different histories of where and how they have been received and remembered in India and the Caribbean respectively. There are many other commentaries about Souza and Williams that use a similar language of the primitive and exotic, in a manner that has since come to be generic of mainstream art criticism in the history of artists of the Caribbean, African and Asian Diasporas in Britain.

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