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Singapore: NUS Press, 2016. Hardcover. New/new. The camera was originally introduced to Southeast Asia by Western residents and travellers keen to record for themselves and home audiences a world so different from their own. It was not long before the skills of taking and reproducing photographs, mainly for portraiture and post cards, was taken up by keen native… Read more about this item

Rutland, Vermont, USA: Tuttle Publishing, 1956. Second printing. Hardcover. Good. A collection of papers presented at a conference held in Rangoon, Burma in 1955 where representatives from academia, the law, religion and journalism gathered together to discuss how Asia would handle its new found freedom in the cultural sphere. 296 pages.Weight: 0.7.kg. The covers and first… Read more about this item

Singapore: Contemporary Asian Art Centre, 2003. Paperback. Very Good. Krishen Jit , an influential figure in the arts in South East Asia, introduces us to a collection of his essays and articles from the early 1970s until 2003. Topics include an analysis of contemporary theatre, multiculturalism, symbolic vision and much else. 248 pages with some colourful pictures,… Read more about this item

Singapore: NUS Museums, National University of Singapore, 2003. First edition. Hardback. Near Fine/new. Charles Dyce was an amateur artist of the 19th century, making visual and written records of places he visited. This book is a collection of his work from the National University of Singapore Museums and covers his travels in Singapore, Malacca, Penang and Batavia. Among… Read more about this item