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“The surrounding great work” : memory, erasure, and curating the built environment of the West India Docks, 1802–2022
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Gray, Aleema and Thom, Danielle (2022) “The surrounding great work” : memory, erasure, and curating the built environment of the West India Docks, 1802–2022. British Art Studies (22). doi:10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-22/graythom ISSN 2058-5462.
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Abstract
The development of London’s West India Docks, opened in 1802, made manifest the contemporary connections between culture, capitalism, and colonialism. A liminal space, the docks existed as a secure conduit for the importation of goods from the West Indies, most of which were produced by enslaved Africans. As such, they functioned as a threshold between the brutal realities of the plantation-based slave economy, and the polite world of the London merchant whose wealth derived from that economy. This collaborative article, which we wrote as two curators at the Museum of London, explores the lasting effects of that liminality, focusing on the aesthetic and spatial implications of the West India Docks’s environment, and the ways in which these persist in influencing the site and its communities today.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Docks -- England -- London, Postcolonialism -- History, Imperialism -- History, West India Dock Company, City planning -- History | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | British Art Studies | ||||
| Publisher: | Paul Mellon Centre | ||||
| ISSN: | 2058-5462 | ||||
| Official Date: | 14 April 2022 | ||||
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| Number: | 22 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-22/graythom | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 2 August 2022 | ||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 16 August 2022 |
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