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

Author(s): Cate, Sandra.

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Main Title
Making merit, making art : a Thai temple in Wimbledon
Author(s)
Cate, Sandra.
Publisher
Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2003
Collation
218 p. : col. ill.
24 cm.
ISBN
0824823575
Dewey Class
755.943
Contents
Preface -- 1. Finding a Place -- 2. Long-Distance Merit-Making -- 3. Thai Art and the Authority of the Past -- 4. From Buddhist Stories to Modern Art -- 5. "Going Outside" and the Experience of Modernity -- 6. Art, Identity, and Performance -- 7. Tourists and Templegoers, Religion and Art.
Language
English
Subject
Mural painting and decoration, Buddhist -- England -- London.
Mural painting and decoration, Thai -- England -- London -- 20th century.
BRN
4950

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