Sarah Monks
Biographic Data
| ID | 6155945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Monks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Monks |
| SIGNATURE | MONKS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2763-8621 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Vishnu-Come-Lately
This article considers John Bacon’s marble monument to one of eighteenth-century British colonialism’s most important protagonists, William Jones (1746–1794). A prodigious scholar of Indian languages, religions, and laws, as well as a Supreme Court judge in Bengal, Jones epitomized early orientalism, promoting the study of Indian cultures as a means of facilitating the East India Company’s ‘governmental’ regulation of colonial subjects in its own…
India in Art in Ireland
Visual Culture and British India
The introduction to this special issue offers a brief summary of recent approaches to the relationship between Britain and India in visual culture. It situates current scholarship in the field in relation to both revised conceptions of ‘the nation’ as an explanatory framework, and a critical engagement with representation and interpretation across cultures and disciplines. The introduction then considers the special issue itself as a cross-sectio…
Anglo‐American
In late 1882 the American painter Winslow Homer arrived back in New York after eighteen months spent at the artists’ colony in Cullercoats, a fishing village near Tynemouth in the north of England. Over the next year, while working on a set of watercolours and oil paintings based on his English subjects, Homer began his enduring relationship with Prout’s Neck on the Maine coast. By the spring of 1883 he was permanently established in Maine, and a…
The Wolfe Man
Rejecting the polarizing conceptions of loyalism and rebellion with which American colonial sentiment has conventionally been described, this article sets out to return to Benjamin West his status as ‘Anglo-American’ and to suggest some of the ways in which his work registers the meanings of that term as Britain and America separated politically. For many who were both pro-colonial and pro-American, ‘Anglo-American’ relations were to be modelled …
Making Love
Appropriating the visual forms and mythological language of Hinduism, Thomas Banks’ sculpture Camadeva and his Mistress on a Crocodile (c. 1794, plaster, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London) is the most sustained attempt in British art before the twentieth century to inhabit the imagined hands, minds and hearts of a non-European culture. Kamadeva is the armed Hindu god of love, the analogue of Cupid, and his invocation here – as also the poem on whic…
Blood out of Stone
Late Cypriot tombs at Maroni Tsaroukkas , Cyprus
On the centenary of British Museum investigations at the site of Maroni Tsaroukkas in southern Cyprus, we present the findings of the re-excavation of funerary deposits at this Late Bronze Age site. We discuss the historical background to the discovery of tombs and artefacts at the site by the British Museum in an attempt to understand and tie in more recent discoveries. The results of excavation over the past five years are assessed in terms of …
Conflict and Competition in Spanish Prehistory
The inevitability of war or warfare cannot be taken for granted in prehistory. Nor can it be seen merely as something constantly going on in the background throughout societal development. Conflict is all too often explained as either a natural human characteristic, which does not require any explanation, or as the inevitable solution to some economic or environmental crisis or change. It is rarely defined or explained, and has not been ascribed …
Conflict and Competition in Spanish Prehistory
The inevitability of war or warfare cannot be taken for granted in prehistory. Nor can it be seen merely as something constantly going on in the background throughout societal development. Conflict is all too often explained as either a natural human characteristic, which does not require any explanation, or as the inevitable solution to some economic or environmental crisis or change. It is rarely defined or explained, and has not been ascribed …
Late Cypriot tombs at Maroni Tsaroukkas , Cyprus
On the centenary of British Museum investigations at the site of Maroni Tsaroukkas in southern Cyprus, we present the findings of the re-excavation of funerary deposits at this Late Bronze Age site. We discuss the historical background to the discovery of tombs and artefacts at the site by the British Museum in an attempt to understand and tie in more recent discoveries. The results of excavation over the past five years are assessed in terms of …
Conflict and Competition in Spanish Prehistory
The inevitability of war or warfare cannot be taken for granted in prehistory. Nor can it be seen merely as something constantly going on in the background throughout societal development. Conflict is all too often explained as either a natural human characteristic, which does not require any explanation, or as the inevitable solution to some economic or environmental crisis or change. It is rarely defined or explained, and has not been ascribed …
Late Cypriot tombs at Maroni Tsaroukkas , Cyprus
On the centenary of British Museum investigations at the site of Maroni Tsaroukkas in southern Cyprus, we present the findings of the re-excavation of funerary deposits at this Late Bronze Age site. We discuss the historical background to the discovery of tombs and artefacts at the site by the British Museum in an attempt to understand and tie in more recent discoveries. The results of excavation over the past five years are assessed in terms of …
Making Love
Appropriating the visual forms and mythological language of Hinduism, Thomas Banks’ sculpture Camadeva and his Mistress on a Crocodile (c. 1794, plaster, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London) is the most sustained attempt in British art before the twentieth century to inhabit the imagined hands, minds and hearts of a non-European culture. Kamadeva is the armed Hindu god of love, the analogue of Cupid, and his invocation here – as also the poem on whic…
Blood out of Stone
Visual Culture and British India
The introduction to this special issue offers a brief summary of recent approaches to the relationship between Britain and India in visual culture. It situates current scholarship in the field in relation to both revised conceptions of ‘the nation’ as an explanatory framework, and a critical engagement with representation and interpretation across cultures and disciplines. The introduction then considers the special issue itself as a cross-sectio…
Anglo‐American
In late 1882 the American painter Winslow Homer arrived back in New York after eighteen months spent at the artists’ colony in Cullercoats, a fishing village near Tynemouth in the north of England. Over the next year, while working on a set of watercolours and oil paintings based on his English subjects, Homer began his enduring relationship with Prout’s Neck on the Maine coast. By the spring of 1883 he was permanently established in Maine, and a…
The Wolfe Man
Rejecting the polarizing conceptions of loyalism and rebellion with which American colonial sentiment has conventionally been described, this article sets out to return to Benjamin West his status as ‘Anglo-American’ and to suggest some of the ways in which his work registers the meanings of that term as Britain and America separated politically. For many who were both pro-colonial and pro-American, ‘Anglo-American’ relations were to be modelled …
India in Art in Ireland
A Vishnu-Come-Lately
This article considers John Bacon’s marble monument to one of eighteenth-century British colonialism’s most important protagonists, William Jones (1746–1794). A prodigious scholar of Indian languages, religions, and laws, as well as a Supreme Court judge in Bengal, Jones epitomized early orientalism, promoting the study of Indian cultures as a means of facilitating the East India Company’s ‘governmental’ regulation of colonial subjects in its own…
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