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"Sandra Cate's pioneering ethnography of art-making at Wat Buddhapadipa, a Thai Buddhist temple in Wimbledon, England, explores contemporary art at the crossroads of identity, authority, and value. Between 1984 and 1992, twenty-six young Thai artists painted a series of temple murals that continue to attract worshippers and tourists from around the world.

Their work, both celebrated and controversial, depicts stories from the Buddha's lives in otherworldly landscapes punctuated with sly references to this-worldly politics and popular culture. Schooled in international art trends, the artists reverse an Orientalist narrative of the Asian Other, telling their own stories to diverse audiences and subsuming Western spaces into a Buddhist worldview."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Hawaii Press
Language
English
Pages
218

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Subjects
Buddhist Mural painting and decoration, Thai Mural painting and decoration, Wat Buddhapadipa (London, England), Mural painting and decoration, Buddhist art, Temples
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England, London
Times
20th century

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

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

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755/.943/0942193
Library of Congress
ND2731.L66 C38 2003, ND2731.L66C38 2003

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xiv, 218 p.:
Number of pages
218

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OL3552872M
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0824823575
LCCN
2002003982
OCLC/WorldCat
49332759
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1604/9780824823573
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5238942

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