Southeast Asia in Ruins. Art and Empire in the Early 19th Century.
by TIFFIN, SARAH
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Singapore.: NUS Press.. 2016.. 82 colour illustrations, xiii + 302pp, notes, bibliography, index. Hardback in dustjacket. New. "British artists and commentators in the late 18th and early 19th century encoded the twin aspirations of progress and power in images and descriptions of Southeast Asia's ruined Hindu and Buddhist candis, pagodas, wats and monuments. To the British eye, images of the remains of past civilisations allowed, indeed stimulated, philosophical meditations on the rise and decline of entire empires. Ruins were witnesses to the fall, humbling and disturbingly prophetic, (and so revealing more about British attitudes than they do about Southeast Asia's cultural remains).
This important study of a highly appealing but relatively neglected body of work adds multiple dimensions to the history of art and image production in Britain of the period, showing how the anxieties of empire were encoded in the genre of landscape paintings and prints." (Publisher's description). .
This important study of a highly appealing but relatively neglected body of work adds multiple dimensions to the history of art and image production in Britain of the period, showing how the anxieties of empire were encoded in the genre of landscape paintings and prints." (Publisher's description). .
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- Asia Bookroom (AU)
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- Title
- Southeast Asia in Ruins. Art and Empire in the Early 19th Century.
- Author
- TIFFIN, SARAH
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 9971698498
- ISBN 13
- 9789971698492
- Publisher
- NUS Press.
- Place of Publication
- Singapore.
- Date Published
- 2016.
- Keywords
- Art, Colonial History, Indonesia, Java, Southeast Asia, zz_Gallery_NewBooks
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