Asian Art At the Norton Simon Museum - Volume 3: Art From Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia

Klappentext This gorgeously illustrated book completes a three-volume series cataloguing the Asian art collection at the Norton Simon Museum. The volume includes approximately 180 religious artworks from Sri Lanka! Thailand! Cambodia! Vietnam! Indonesia! Burma and Laos! as well as Ban Chiang pottery and rain drums. Stone and metal sculptures from Cambodia and Thailand are an area of particular strength in this collection. A substantial introduction to the volume provides pertinent information about the cultural milieu that inspired the creation of these artworks. Each object is then illustrated and discussed in detail in the catalogue section of the book. Published in association with the Norton Simon Art Foundation Zusammenfassung The volume includes some 180 religious artworks from Sri Lanka! Thailand! Cambodia! Vietnam! Indonesia! Burma and Laos! as well as Ban Chiang pottery and rain drums. Stone and metal sculptures from Cambodia and Thailand are an area of particular strength in this collection.

Product details

• Authors: Pratapaditya Pal, Pal Pratapaditya
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2004
• EAN: 9780300101485
• ISBN: 978-0-300-10148-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 260 mm x 311 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Art from Sri Lanka, Southeast; Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum; Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum; Asian Art at the Norton Simon Museum Series (YUP)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts