Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory
Softcover
1997 · Washintgton DC
by Jessup, Helen Ibbitson
Washintgton DC: National Gallery of Art, 1997. Softcover. VG- (spine creased, all pages clear and intact). Black pictorial wraps with white and red lettering. xxxii, 381 pp. Numerous color and bw plates. "While we wished to associate this exhibition with the potent symbol of Angkor, its true title is Ten Centuries of Khmer Art, since many of the major works belong to a time before the founding of Angkor at the end of the ninth century. There was no question of trying to evoke the site of Angkor in this exhibition, as was done at universal and colonial expositions in an era when travel was siddficult, by means of casts and monumental reconstructions, if only because we lacked the space to do so. Instead, the exhibition will provide the opportunity to see or review films and other documents relating to the Khmer temples and the history of the Depot for the Conservation og Angkor, whose giant labors have brought so many monuments through a long period of civil war withouth their suffering irreparable damage." - quoted from Introduction. (Inventory #: 17741)