Khmer bronzes
Subtitle: new interpretations of the past
By: Emma C. Bunker and Douglas Latchford
Contributors: Latchford, Douglas, 1931-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Art Media Resources; Art Media Resources Ltd
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9781588861115
Subjects: Buddhist bronzes; Khmer Bronzes; Hindu bronzes
Description: "A range of sacred Khmer bronze images appeared during the third quarter of the first millennium CE unlike anything previously produced in the Kingdom of Cambodia. This cultural explosion developed during an elegant and glittering period of commerce and diplomacy in a Southeast Asian world related economically by trade and spiritually by faith. In Khmer Bronzes: New Interpretations of the Past, the authors explore this flowering of Khmer sacred art."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The beginning of the use of metals and alloys in Cambodia; title: The technical history of early Asian kettledrums / by TzeHuey Chiou-Peng; title: Casting technology in Cambodia and related Southeast Asian civilizations / by Pieter Meyers; title: The birth of pre-Angkor/period devotional bronzes; title: Khmer sacred bronze imagery of the early Angkor period (802/1006); title: Exotic Buddhist bronzes found in Khmer-controlled territory; title: The eleventh century, "golden age" of Khmer bronzes; title: The Angkor Wat period and beyond (1080/1181); title: The Bayon period (1182/1218?) and beyond.