Art and war in the Pacific world : making, breaking, and taking from Anson's voyage to the Philippine-American War /
Recent years have witnessed a surge in interest the Pacific world as a hub for the global trade in art objects. Yet, the history of art and architecture has seldom reckoned with another profound aspect of the region's history, its exposure to global conflict. Art and War in the Pacific World pr...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2018]
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| Summary: | Recent years have witnessed a surge in interest the Pacific world as a hub for the global trade in art objects. Yet, the history of art and architecture has seldom reckoned with another profound aspect of the region's history, its exposure to global conflict. Art and War in the Pacific World provides a new view of the Pacific world, and of global artistic interaction, by exploring how the making, alteration, looting and destruction of images, objects, buildings and landscapes intersected with the exercise of force during the British and U.S. military incursions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 318 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520294516 0520294513 |