Studies in Southeast Asian Art: Essays in Honor of Stanley J. O'Connor / Edition 1

by Nora A. Taylor

Overview

This wide-ranging collection of essays examines the arts of Southeast Asia in context. Contributors study the creation, use, and local significance of works of art, illuminating the many complex links between an object's aesthetic qualities and its origins in a community.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780877277286
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	01/01/2000
Series:	Studies on Southeast Asia , #29
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Nora A. Taylor is Alsdorf Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of Painters in Hanoi: An Ethnography of Vietnamese Art as well as articles on modern and contemporary Vietnamese Art.

Editorial Reviews

Stanley J. O'Connor's concern and interest in making the art and cultures of Southeast Asia come alive to students in his classes... has clearly worked. His legacy is displayed in these essays.

Asian Perspectives

This collection provides a broad understanding of the topics that fascinate O'Connor: geographically, from Burma to the east coast of Malaysia, and historically, from prehistoric to contemporary painting. Despite this breadth, it displays a unity of approach that I would summarize as follows: art and its practice are the expression of human relations.

Archipel

Stanley J. O'Connor's concern and interest in making the art and cultures of Southeast Asia come alive to students in his classes... has clearly worked. His legacy is displayed in these essays.

-- "Asian Perspectives"

This collection provides a broad understanding of the topics that fascinate O'Connor: geographically, from Burma to the east coast of Malaysia, and historically, from prehistoric to contemporary painting. Despite this breadth, it displays a unity of approach that I would summarize as follows: art and its practice are the expression of human relations.

-- "Archipel"

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