Making merit, making art : a Thai temple in Wimbledon / Sandra Cate

Author:: Cate, Sandra
Published:: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2003]
Copyright Date:: ©2003
Physical Description:: xiv, 218 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

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Contents:

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.

Subject(s):

Wat Buddhapadipa (London, England)
Mural painting and decoration, Thai—England—London—20th century
Buddhist mural painting and decoration—England—London

ISBN:

0824823575 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index.

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