Angkor Wat – A Transcultural History of Heritage : : Volume 1: Angkor in France. From Plaster Casts to Exhibition Pavilions. Volume 2: Angkor in Cambodia. From Jungle Find to Global Icon / / Michael Falser.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Art and Architecture eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Falser, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1150 p.) :; ca. 1.400 Abb., z.T. in Farbe / approx. 1,400 b/w and color images

This book unravels the formation of the modern concept of cultural heritage by charting its colonial, postcolonial-nationalist and global trajectories. By bringing to light many unresearched dimensions of the twelfth-century Cambodian temple of Angkor Wat during its modern history, the study argues...

Table of Contents

• Volume 1: Angkor in France. From Plaster Casts to Exhibition Pavilions
• Front Matter Volume 1
• Table of Contents Volume 1
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• I. Lost in Translation? The Mekong Mission of 1866 and the Plaster Casts from Angkor at the Parisian Universal Exhibition of 1867
• II. La Porte d’Entrée from Ethnography to Art: Delaporte’s Missions to Angkor, his Musée Khmer and the Universal Exhibition of 1878
• III. Staging Angkor in the Museum
• IV. The Universal Exhibition of 1889 in Paris: Angkor Wat Goes Pavilion
• V. The Rise of Angkor in the French Peripheries 1894—1906: From Lyon, Bordeaux, and Rouen to Marseille
• VI. Representing Angkor as a French patrimoine: The National Colonial Exhibition of Marseille 1922
• VII. Going Real Size: Angkor Wat and the 1931 Exposition Coloniale Internationale in Paris
• VIII. The End of a Seventy-Year Career in France: Angkor at the 1937 Exposition Internationale in Paris
• Findings and Conclusions for Volume 1
• Epilogue to Volume 1
• Plates
• Volume 2: Angkor in Cambodia. From Jungle Find to Global Icon
• Front Matter Volume 2
• Table of Contents Volume 2
• IX. The French-colonial Making of the Parc Archéologique d’Angkor
• X. Performing Grandeur — Re-enacting Angkor. Cambodia’s Independence 1953—1970 under Norodom Sihanouk
• XI. Making Angkor Global (1970—1990): Hot and Cold War Politics, Competing Inheritance Claims and the Invention of Angkor as Heritage of Humanity
• XII. Angkor as UNESCO World Heritage: The Decisive Years 1987—1993
• Findings and Conclusions for Volume 2
• Epilogue to Volume 2
• Plates
• Bibliography
• Index