Southeast Asia in ruins : art and empire in the early 19th century / Sarah Tiffin.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:Singapore : NUS Press, [2016]الطبعات:First editionوصف:xiii, 302 pages : colour illustrations, plan ; 25 cmنوع المحتوى:- still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9789971698492
- 9971698498
- South-East Asia in ruins : art and empire in the early 19th century
- N72.S6 T534 2016
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | N72.S6 T534 2016 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30020000038342 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | N72.S6 T534 2016 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30020000041630 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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."--back cover.