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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cate, Sandra
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.