Art and war in the Pacific world
Subtitle: making, breaking, and taking from Anson's voyage to the Philippine-American War
By: J.M. Mancini
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780520294516
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Destruction and pillage; Cultural property; Art and war; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-299) and index.
Table of contents: title: Surplus transfer; title: Composite empire; title: Transpacific angles of vision; title: War, the crucible of art; title: Sovereignty trouble; title: Destructive creation.