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The cycle of life in the paintings of Thai artist Pichai Nirand : Philip Constable

Author(s): Constable, Philip | Nirand, Pichai

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Main Title: The cycle of life in the paintings of Thai artist Pichai Nirand
Author(s): Nirand, Pichai
Constable, Philip
Publisher: Chiang Mai : Silkworm Books, 2020
Collation: viii, 108 pages : color illustrations
24 cm
ISBN: 9786162151552
Dewey Class: 759.9593
Contents: Introduction -- 1. Pichai Nirand and Modern Thai Painting -- 2. Thai Art as "Traditional Spirit" and "Afflux of Intellectual and Artistic Ideas" -- 3. A Geology of Knowledge: The Cycle of Life -- 4. The Buddhapada: Lord Buddha's Footprint -- 5. The Lotus Paintings: A Geometry of Buddhist Knowledge -- 6. Lord Buddha's Miracles: Towards a Thai Buddhist Order -- 7. The Buddhapada: Artistic Template for a Changing Society -- 8. The Traiphum: Artistic Cosmology of Social Mindfulness -- 9. The Cycle of Life in the Paintings of Pichai Nirand.
Language: English
Subject: Buddhist art -- Thailand
Phichai Niran, -- 1936-
BRN: 9921

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