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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Nus Press
ISBN-13
9789971698492
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221301077
Product Key Features
Book Title
Southeast Asia in Ruins: Art and Empire in the Early 19th Century
Author
Sarah Tiffin
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Nature, History
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
277 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Sarah Tiffin
Country/Region of Manufacture
Singapore
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