Art of Southeast Asia - Hardcover

Girard-Geslan, Maud; Klokke, Marijke J.; Bonheur, Albert Le; Stadtner, Donald M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810919958 ISBN 13: 9780810919952

Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1998

Synopsis

850 illustrations, including 261 plates in color. Bound in publisher's original white cloth with the spine stamped in red.

About this title

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

From Booklist:

From the very first to the very last of its 850 illustrations, this handsomely produced and meticulously researched volume proves to be an incomparable and invaluable resource. A half dozen scholars provided essays covering the history of art in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar (formerly Burma), Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Every form of visual art is chronicled with sterling examples, including textiles, ceramics, bronzes, jewelry, paintings, statues of the Buddha on every conceivable scale, and entire temples. Just as various schools and movements associated with each culture are defined and their rise and fall charted over the centuries, the social, religious, and political contexts within which each style and technical innovation emerged are also analyzed, a multifaceted approach that greatly broadens our understanding of the diversity and complexity of the creative life of this enormous region. Donna Seaman

About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0810919958
• ISBN 13: 9780810919952
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 635
• Editor: Girard-Geslan Maud