The Art and Architecture of Thailand

副标题: From Prehistoric Times Through the Thirteenth Century

ISBN: 9789004144408

出版社: Brill Academic Publishers

出版年: 2005-2-14

页数: 297

定价: USD 177.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

Written sources on Thai history are scarce. It took Hiram Woodward many years of painstaking archaeological and art-historical research to finally piece together this first ever comprehensive survey work on the art and architecture of Thailand from the earliest times until the establishment of the Thai-speaking kingdoms. The book, organized geographically and chronologically, covers four eras: the prehistoric period; the period characterized by the culture of the kingdom of Dvaravati; the centuries of Khmer dominance; and, as classical Khmer civilization waned, the period of the struggle for identity. A systematic and elucidating history of pre-fourteenth-century Thailand in a volume indispensable to historians of art, religion, politics, and society.