The Landscape Palimpsest: Reading Early 19th Century British Representations of MalayaThe four chapters in the author's thesis deal with ideas and constructs that are essential for understanding landscape painting as visual history; individual artists and their experiences in Malaya; specific paintings and their themes; and a deeper reading of early British landscape depictions based |
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