Southeast Asia in ruins
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31093520
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126539
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320127773
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320130988
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320132899
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330135289
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  alternate name: Colonies--Research
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  alternate name: Colonies--Research--Southeast Asia
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  alternate name: British--Southeast Asia
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  alternate name: British colonies
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  alternate name: British
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  alternate name: Art and society--Southeast Asia--History--19th century
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  alternate name: Art and society
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  alternate name: British--Colonies--Asia--History--19th century
abstract: 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.
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310113472
language: eng
temporal coverage: 1775-1825
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301264332
type: CreativeWork

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