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

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.

General

Imprint:	NUS Press
Country of origin:	Singapore
Release date:	September 2016
Authors:	Sarah Tiffin
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	277
ISBN-13:	978-9971-69-849-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1600 to 1800 > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	9971-69-849-8
Barcode:	9789971698492

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