Art and Archaeology of South-East Asia
Contents: Preface. 1. The Archaeology of Mainland South-East Asia and its Implications for Art History/Himanshu Prabha Ray. 2. Prehistoric Art to Folk Art: A Possible Continuity in South-East Asia/D.K. Bhattacharya. 3. Champa: An Outpost of Indian Culture/M.N. Deshpande. 4. The Art of Cham Temples in Vietnam/J.C. Sharma. 5. The Dong-duong Art/Bachchan Kumar. 6. The Art of Vietnam and Cambodia: An Overview/Lokesh Chandra. 7. Apsaras at Angkor Wat/K.M. Srivastava. 8. Lao Tai Muang and Art Manifestation/A.K. Das. 9. Buddhist Art of Laos/Bachchan Kumar. 10. Ramayana in Laotian Art/Induja Awasthi. 11. The Mural Paintings of Laos/Neeru Misra. Bibliography. Index.
Art and Archaeology of South-East Asia is an outcome of two consecutive seminars organised by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi. It has eleven selected studies on South-East Asia by eminent scholars of the subject.
Cultural contacts between India and South-East Asia began much before the appearance of Sanskrit inscriptions in the middle of the first millennium AD. This book contains a wealth of information on sculptural, architectural and monumental art forms of South-East Asia and its contemporaneous art forms in India. In its stride it explores the common narratives and the aesthetic and iconographic links between India and South-East Asia. (Jacket)
