Cultivated tastes colonial art, nature and landscape in the Netherlands Indies
Culitivated Tastes argues for a new evaluation of colonial landscape art and representations of nature from the Netherlands Indies (colonial Indonesia). The thesis focuses on examples from Java, Sumatra, Ambon and Bali during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but also discusses early post-colonial literature. It uses paintings and photography, with supporting references to Dutch colonial novels, to argue that images of landscape and nature were linked to the formation of Dutch colonial identities and, more generally, to the politics of colonial expansion. Paintings were not simply... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | doctoral thesis |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2007 |
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UNSW
Sydney |
Schlagwörter: | Art / Colonial -- Indonesia / Cultural landscapes -- Indonesia -- History / Landscape painting / Dutch / Landscape painting -- Indonesia / Colonies in art / Colonies in literature / Imperialism in art |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28793643 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/40554 |