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Southeast Asia in Ruins - Art and Empire in the Early 19th Century (Hardcover)
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Southeast Asia in Ruins - Art and Empire in the Early 19th Century (Hardcover)
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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.
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