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Bayon : new perspectives / editor: Joyce Clark ; contributors : Ang Choulean ... [et al.].

Title
Bayon : new perspectives / editor: Joyce Clark ; contributors : Ang Choulean ... [et al.].
Publication
Bangkok : River Books, 2007.

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Additional Authors
Clark, Joyce
Description
403 p.
Summary
"Brings together for the first time leading scholars whose findings and insights challenge, not always in consensus, many of the earlier interpretations of the Bayon's art, architecture and inscriptions" -- from p. [4] of cover.
Subject
  • Bayon (Angkor Thom)
  • Temples, Khmer > Angkor (Extinct city)
  • Angkor (Extinct city)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-389) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Editor's preface / Joyce Clark -- Foreword / Hiram Woodward -- Introduction / Michael Vickery -- The historical development of Khmer culture from the death of Sūryavarman II to the 16th century / Claude Jacques -- The confrontation of the Khmers and Chams in the Bayon period / Anne-Valérie Schweyer -- Religion at the time of Jayavarman VII / TS Maxwell -- The short inscriptions of the Bayon and contemporary temples / TS Maxwell -- The Bayon : an archaelogical and architectural study / Olivier Cunin -- The mystery of the face towers / Peter D Sharrock -- Reliefs of the Bayon / Vittorio Roveda -- In the beginning was the Bayon / Ang Choulean.
ISBN
9789749863473
OCLC
  • 182614118
  • SCSB-10871049
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library