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 Wo...

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Beteilige Person: Mancini, JoAnne Marie 1968- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Oakland, California University of California Press [2018]
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Zusammenfassung:"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"...Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Umfang:xix, 318 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9780520294516