Thai and Cambodian Scylptures from the 6th to the 14th Centuries

This copy signed by British artist and sculptor David Heathcote

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Printing Details

First UK edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 33 × 23.5cm, 253pp

From the library of British artist David Heathcote (b.1931), with his handwritten name to the ffep. He studied at the Canterbury College of Art before completing his training at the Slade School of Fine Art in London under Keith Vaughan and Claude Rogers. Heathcote is a multi-disciplinary artist, including paintings, prints, and sculpture. His artistic style has been shaped by the twenty years which he spent living in Zimbabwe and Nigeria at the beginning of his career (his first solo exhibition was held in Zimbabwe in 1961). Other notable exhibitions and galleries include the Young Contemporaries Exhibition at the RBA Gallery in London in 1958, the Ahmadu Bello University and British Council Galleries in Nigeria, the Beckel Odille Boïcos Gallery in Paris, and at GV Art in London.

This book brings together previously unpublished Cambodian, Thai and Vietnamese stone and bronze sculptures from nine centuries—from the style of Phnom Da, the mysterious mountain temple in the Mekong Delta, to the style of the Bayon, the apogee of Cambodian architecture. Selected from well-established private collections and museums all over the world, these forty-one sculptures, all of extra-ordinary quality, demonstrate how the highly developed civilization in Southeast Asia generated a power and aesthetic of its own.

Condition

A decent copy, with light wear to the wrapper's edges and spotted foxing to the pages' top and fore-edges. Otherwise a good, solid copy.

ISBN

9780856673610