Main entry:

Tiffin, Sarah, author.

Title & Author:

Southeast asia in ruins : art and empire in the early 19th century / Sarah Tiffin.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Singapore : NUS Press, [2016]
©2016

Description:

xiii, 302 pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Based on the author's doctoral dissertation.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-292) and index.
Raffles' The history of Java, its precursors and its peers -- The Candi of Java and the picturesque ideal -- The barometer of civilization -- the nature of decline -- The politics of decline -- Dissipating the gloom of ignorance -- The landscape of regret.
Dust jacket.

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.

ISBN:

9789971698492
9971698498

Subject:

Raffles, Thomas Stamford, Sir, 1781-1826
Art and society Southeast Asia History 19th century.
British Southeast Asia.
Colonies Southeast Asia Research.
British Asia Colonies History 19th century.
Art et société Asie du Sud-Est Histoire 19e siècle.
Britanniques Asie du Sud-Est.
Art and society
British
British colonies
Colonies Research
Colonies Research Southeast Asia.
Asia
Southeast Asia
Great Britain Colonies Southeast Asia History 19th century.
Southeast Asia Antiquities.
Southeast Asia In Art
1775-1825

Form/genre:

Theses.
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295790
Call No.: BIB 242186
Status: Available