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Making merit, making art : a Thai temple in Wimbledon / Sandra Cate.
Penn Museum Library ND2731.L66 C38 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cate, Sandra.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mural painting and decoration, Thai--England--London--20th century.
- Mural painting and decoration, Thai.
- Buddhist mural painting and decoration--England--London.
- Buddhist mural painting and decoration.
- England--London.
- Wat Buddhapadipa (London, England).
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 218 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- A pioneering ethnography of art-making at Wat Buddhapadipa, a Thai Buddhist temple in Wimbledon, England.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0824823575
- OCLC:
- 49332759
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