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LEADER: 01950cam a2200301 a 4500
001 2011019480
003 DLC
005 20131029160418.0
008 110510s2011 ilua b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2011019480
020 $a9781588861115 (alk. paper)
040 $aNIC/DLC$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aNK7978.6.C3$bB86 2011
082 00 $a739.5/1209596$223
100 1 $aBunker, Emma C.
245 10 $aKhmer bronzes :$bnew interpretations of the past /$cEmma C. Bunker and Douglas Latchford.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aChicago :$bArt Media Resources,$cc2011.
300 $axv, 544 p. :$bcol. ill. ;$c32 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 513-535) and index.
505 0 $aThe beginning of the use of metals and alloys in Cambodia -- The technical history of early Asian kettledrums / by TzeHuey Chiou-Peng -- Casting technology in Cambodia and related Southeast Asian civilizations / by Pieter Meyers -- The birth of pre-Angkor/period devotional bronzes -- Khmer sacred bronze imagery of the early Angkor period (802/1006) -- Exotic Buddhist bronzes found in Khmer-controlled territory -- The eleventh century, "golden age" of Khmer bronzes -- The Angkor Wat period and beyond (1080/1181) -- The Bayon period (1182/1218?) and beyond.
520 $a"A range of sacred Khmer bronze images appeared during the third quarter of the first millennium CE unlike anything previously produced in the Kingdom of Cambodia. This cultural explosion developed during an elegant and glittering period of commerce and diplomacy in a Southeast Asian world related economically by trade and spiritually by faith. In Khmer Bronzes: New Interpretations of the Past, the authors explore this flowering of Khmer sacred art."--Publisher's description.
650 0 $aBronzes, Khmer.
650 0 $aBuddhist bronzes$zCambodia.
650 0 $aHindu bronzes$zCambodia.
700 1 $aLatchford, Douglas,$d1931-