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• Title:Southeast Asia in ruins : art and empire in the early 19th century / Sarah Tiffin.
  
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• Author/Creator:Tiffin, Sarah, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
  
• Published/Created:Singapore : NUS Press, [2016]
  ©2016
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N72.S6 T54 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Art and society--Southeast Asia--History--19th century.
  British--Southeast Asia.
  British--Colonies--Asia--History--19th century.
  Colonies--Research--Southeast Asia.
  
• Description:xiii, 302 pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cm
  
• Summary: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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9789971698492 hardcover
  9971698498 hardcover
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: I. Raffles' The History of Java, its Precursors and its Peers
  II. Candi of Java and the Picturesque Ideal
  III. Barometer of Civilisation
  IV. Nature of Decline
  V. Politics of Decline
  VI. Dissipating the Gloom of Ignorance
  Conclusion: The Landscape of Regret.