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Focuses on a remarkable, over life-size sculpture of Krishna, an incarnation of Vishnu, in one of the earliest sculptural representations known from Cambodia.
List of contents
Forewords by Director, Cleveland Museum of Art, Director, National Museum of Cambodia, Director, Musée National des Arts Asiatiques, Guimet, Minister of Culture and Fine Arts of the Kingdom of Cambodia, U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia
Preface
Introduction: Krishna from Phnom Da to Cleveland by Sonya Rhie Mace
Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan: An Iconographical Study by Thierry Zephir
Phnom Da and the History of Cambodian Art by Pierre Baptiste
Religion and Polity of Funan from Inscriptions and Literature by Choulean Ang
Reconstructing the Gods of Stone Mountain by Bertrand Porte
Conservation History of the Cleveland Krishna by Beth Edelstein, Colleen Snyder and Amaris Sturm
The Stone of Stone Mountain by Christian Fischer
Index
Bibliography
List of Authors
About the author
Sonya Rhie Mace is George P. Bickford Curator of Indian and Southeast Asian Art, Cleveland Museum of Art
Bertrand Porte is sculpture conservator, École française d'Extrême-Orient in Phnom Penh
Choulean Ang is professor of Historical Anthropology, Faculty of Archaeology, Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh
Pierre Baptiste is curator of Southeast Asian Art, National Museum of Asian Arts, Guimet, Paris
Socheat Chea is sculpture conservator, National Museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh
Beth Edelstein is objects conservator, Cleveland Museum of Art
Christian Fischer is co-director, UCLA/Getty Conservation Interdepartmental Program, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Los Angeles
Colleen Snyder is associate objects conservator, Cleveland Museum of Art
Amaris Sturm is Mellon Fellow, Objects Conservation, Cleveland Museum of Art
Thierry Zéphir is project manager for Southeast Asia, National Museum of Asian Arts, Guimet, Paris
