Making merit, making art : a Thai temple in Wimbledon /
Sandra Cate's pioneering ethnography of art-making at Wat Buddhapadipa, a Thai Buddhist temple in Wimbledon, England, explores contemporary art at the crossroads of identity, authority, and value. Between 1984 and 1992, twenty-six young Thai artists painted a series of temple murals that contin...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
©2003.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Finding a place
- Long-distance merit making
- Thai art and the authority of the past
- From Buddhist stories to modern art
- "Going outside" and the experience of modernity
- Art, identity, and performance
- Tourists and templegoers, religion, and art.