The temples of Java - Softcover

Jacques Dumarcay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195825950 ISBN 13: 9780195825954

Publisher: OUP Australia and New Zealand, 1986

Synopsis

Edited and translated by: Smithies, Michael;

About this title

About the Author

R. S. McGregor, Professor, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge.

Review

'The line drawings and most of the plates are excellent...' __Review of Books___

'It is the great merit of this beautifully illustrated little book, written by one of the world's leading architectural scholars of Southeast Asia, that it permits the reader to gain an understanding of the whole evolution of temple building in Java during the Hindu-Buddhist period .... This
is a book which will be read with profit by specialists and amateurs alike.' ___Asian Affairs___

'It is the great merit of this beautifully illustrated little book, written by one of the world's leading architectural scholars of Southeast Asia, that it permits the reader to gain an understanding of the whole evolution of temple building in Java during the Hindu-Buddhist period Asian
Affairs

`It is the great merit of this beautifully illustrated little book, written by one of the world's leading architectural scholars of Southeast Asia, that it permits the reader to gain an understanding of the whole evolution of temple building in Java during the Hindu-Buddhist period. ... This
is a book which will be read with profit by specialists and amateurs alike.` Asian Affairs

'I enjoyed this book as recalling the pleasure of visiting Yogyakarta and its surroundings and as confirming many of my own impressions of its life style...The line drawing and most of the colour plates are excellent.' UJournal of the Royal Asiatic Society

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Australia and New Zealand
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195825950
• ISBN 13: 9780195825954
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 101