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The essay focuses on the material culture of the signares, that is, the objects and representations of an exceptional Eurafrican female community in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, composed of mixed-race women from Saint-Louis du Sénégal and the island of Gorée. Through their matrimonial alliances with European merchants, signares formed a commercial and political elite. The essay identifies the transcultural technique of self-fashioning which they pursued so that they would be identified as powerful women. It addresses their practices as a way of discussing contemporary European theories of ornament, juxtaposing Caty Louet's and Anna Colas's invention in the domains of fabrics, headdresses and architecture with Gottfried Semper's and Charles Blanc's grammars of adornment. In a renewed and broadened conception of Paul Gilroy's Black Atlantic, the essay confronts theories of art in this vast geographical space as they were embedded – and can be unveiled – in texts as much as in practices.
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Art History is a refereed journal that publishes essays and reviews on all aspects, areas and periods of the history of art, from a diversity of perspectives. Founded in 1978, it has established an international reputation for publishing innovative essays at the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship, whether on earlier or more recent periods. At the forefront of scholarly enquiry, Art History is opening up the discipline to new developments and to interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches.
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