At the South-East Asian Table
Title | At the South-East Asian Table PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Yen Ho |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Architecture |
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Food as a daily meal or as a religious offering is fundamental to the cultures of South-East Asia and is a source of utmost enjoyment to its people. Methods of preparing tasty and economical meals are often discussed with passion, and sacrifices to gods and spirits are invariably conducted with great rejoicing. This book explores the multifaceted aspects of food in South-East Asia. Beginning with a historical and sociological survey of South-East Asian food and eating habits, it goes on to discuss the ingredients and spices used in the region, the character of the food markets, the changing styles of the kitchens, and the different styles of cooking and eating from the past to the present. A final chapter examines common South-East Asian sayings based on the food and culinary habits of the region.
Images of the Wildman in Southeast Asia
Title | Images of the Wildman in Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Forth |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2008-12-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135784302 |
The book examines ‘wildmen’such as Homo floresiensis and ebu gogo, images of hairy humanlike creatures known to rural villagers and other local people in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. It explores the source of these representations and their status in local systems of knowledge.
Southeast Asia in Ruins
Title | Southeast Asia in Ruins PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Tiffin |
Publisher | NUS Press |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 2016-08-26 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9971698498 |
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 candi, 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 prompts to speculation on imperial failure, and the remains of the Buddhist and Hindu monuments scattered across Southeast Asia proved no exception. 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.
Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia
Title | Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Charmaine Toh |
Publisher | National Gallery Singapore |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2022-11-29 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 981184044X |
This richly illustrated catalogue examines the power of photography and its mobilisation within systems of knowledge and representation across Southeast Asian societies. Rather than just thinking about what photographs show, Living Pictures explores what photographs do, acknowledging that photographs have lives—they move and they act—and in the process, they affect the world around them. This groundbreaking catalogue accompanies the world’s first-ever survey of the medium’s histories across Southeast Asia, from its earliest beginnings in the 19th century until its diverse contemporary manifestations. It traces the creation, circulation and consumption of photography and how these processes have shaped the visual regimes of the region, through essays by the Living Pictures curators, interviews with artists and photographers featured in the exhibition, comprehensive plates including never-before-published images, and new research by leading international scholars focusing on the interdisciplinary intersections between photography and art history, archaeology and cultural theory.
Southeast Asian Images
Title | Southeast Asian Images PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Anton Niels Mulder |
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Pages | 231 |
Release | 2001 |
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Images of Southeast Asia in Children's Fiction
Title | Images of Southeast Asia in Children's Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Nam Chen Lai |
Publisher | NUS Press |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Asia, Southeastern |
ISBN | 9789971690427 |
Southeast Asian Pictures [Christie's, 2004].
Title | Southeast Asian Pictures [Christie's, 2004]. PDF eBook |
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Release | 2004 |
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