Arts of ancient Viet Nam
Subtitle: from river plain to open sea
By: Nancy Tingley ; with essays by Andreas Reinecke ... [et al.].
Contributors: Reinecke, Andreas.; Asia Society. Museum.; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Publisher: Asia Society Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Distributed by Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Houston; New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780300146967
Subjects: Art, Vietnamese -- Exhibitions; Vietnam -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: "Explores Viet Nam's rich heritage, from the Sa Huynh culture (1st millennium B.C.) to art from Hoi An. The authors discuss links between Viet Nam and Indonesia, reflected in the Hindu and Buddhist temples and stone sculptures, and investigate trade in gold and Chinese ceramics with Butuan"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Asia Society Museum, Feb. 11-May 3, 2009 and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 14-Sept. 7, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Nancy Tingley; title: Early cultures (first millennium B.C. to second century A.D.) / Andreas Reinecke; title: Catalogue / Nancy Tingley; title: The archaeology of Fu Nan in the Mekong River Delta : the Oc Eo culture of Viet Nam / Pierre-Yves Manguin; title: Catalogue / Nancy Tingley; title: Champa : Riverine polities, ports of call / Nancy Tingley; title: Catalogue / Nancy Tingley; title: Trade and exchange in the sixteenth-eighteenth centuries through the prism of Hoi An / Kerry Nguyen-Long; title: Catalogue / Nancy Tingley; title: Appendix. Ceramics from shipwrecks off Viet Nam / Nguyen Dinh Chien.