Publication: Capturing the Straits | Painting and Postcard Views from the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Contents
Foreword | Ahmad Mashadi
Constructing the Colonial Landscape: A Curatorial Introduction | Foo Su Ling
The exhibition Capturing the Straits: Painting and Postcard Views from the 19thand Early 20th Centuries brings together paintings of the
Straits Settlements by Scotsman Charles Andrew Dyce who lived in Singapore
between 1842 and 1847, and picture postcards of Malacca dating from 1900 to
1957. Referencing the assembly of visual materials, this essay examines image
making in Malaya within the transformative setting of colonial expansion and
consolidation. The discussion includes aspects of pictorial production in
relation to conventions of representation, and develops contexts within which
such images may be set alongside one another to stimulate a range of
discourses.
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