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

This copy was owned by British painter and sculptor David Heathcote with his name to the ffep. Heathcote (b.1931) studied at the Slade School of Art, and worked in Zimbabwe and Nigeria for twenty years, an experience that would contribute significantly to his creative vision.

This book brings together previously unpublished Cambodian, Thai and Vietnamese stone and bronze sculptures from nine centuries—from the style of Phnom Da, the mysterious mountain temple in the Mekong Delta,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