Making Merit, Making Art : : A Thai Temple in Wimbledon / / Sandra Cate.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2002] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 54 illus., 50 in color |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Transliteration
- Preface
- 1. Finding a Place
- 2. Long-Distance Merit-Making
- 3. Thai Art and the Authority of the Past
- 4. From Buddhist Stories to Modern Art
- 5. "Going Outside" and the Experience of Modernity
- 6. Art, Identity, and Performance
- 7. Tourists and Templegoers, Religion and Art
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index