Studies in Southeast Asian Art: Essays in Honor of Stanley J. O'Connor (Studies on Southeast Asia Volume 29) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877277281 ISBN 13: 9780877277286

Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2000

Synopsis

This wide-ranging collection of essays examines the arts of Southeast Asia in context. Contributors study the creation, use, and local significance of works of art, illuminating the many complex links between an object's aesthetic qualities and its origins in a community.

About this title

About the Author:

Nora A. Taylor is Alsdorf Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of Painters in Hanoi: An Ethnography of Vietnamese Art as well as articles on modern and contemporary Vietnamese Art.

Review:

"Stanley J. O'Connor's concern and interest in making the art and cultures of Southeast Asia come alive to students in his classes... has clearly worked. His legacy is displayed in these essays."

(Asian Perspectives)

"This collection provides a broad understanding of the topics that fascinate O'Connor: geographically, from Burma to the east coast of Malaysia, and historically, from prehistoric to contemporary painting. Despite this breadth, it displays a unity of approach that I would summarize as follows: art and its practice are the expression of human relations."

(Archipel)

About this edition

• Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0877277281
• ISBN 13: 9780877277286
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244
• Editor: Taylor Nora A.