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Thai Art

Author : David Teh
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262035952
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Thai Art written by David Teh and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interplay of the local and the global in contemporary Thai art, as artists strive for international recognition and a new meaning of the national. Since the 1990s, Thai contemporary art has achieved international recognition, circulating globally by way of biennials, museums, and commercial galleries. Many Thai artists have shed identification with their nation; but “Thainess” remains an interpretive crutch for understanding their work. In this book, the curator and critic David Teh examines the tension between the global and the local in Thai contemporary art. Writing the first serious study of Thai art since 1992 (and noting that art history and criticism have lagged behind the market in recognizing it), he describes the competing claims to contemporaneity, as staked in Thailand and on behalf of Thai art elsewhere. He shows how the values of the global art world are exchanged with local ones, how they do and don't correspond, and how these discrepancies have been exploited. How can we make sense of globally circulating art without forgoing the interpretive resources of the local, national, or regional context? Teh examines the work of artists who straddle the local and the global, becoming willing agents of assimilation yet resisting homogenization. He describes the transition from an artistic subjectivity couched in terms of national community to a more qualified, postnational one, against the backdrop of the singular but waning sovereignty of the Thai monarchy and sustained political and economic turmoil. Among the national currencies of Thai art that Teh identifies are an agricultural symbology, a Siamese poetics of distance and itinerancy, and Hindu-Buddhist conceptions of charismatic power. Each of these currencies has been converted to a legal tender in global art—signifying sustainability, utopia, the conceptual, and the relational—but what is lost, and what may be gained, in such exchanges?

Thai Art and Culture

Author : Henry Ginsburg
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824823672
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Thai Art and Culture written by Henry Ginsburg and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lavishly illustrated new study, Henry Ginsburg describes a wide range of Thai manuscripts and other documents in European and North American collections, discussing each in its religious and historical context. It contains an impressive compilation of maps, letters, photographs, and manuscripts that will make it a valuable reference tool for the Southeast Asia scholar, while its colorful illustrations will appeal to a wider audience interested in Thai culture.

Flavours

Author : Steven Pettifor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Flavours written by Steven Pettifor and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Flavours' offers a taste of the contemporary art scene in Thailand, a country with strong traditions but which is rapidly modernising. The text includes career profiles of 23 artists.

The Art of Thai Comics

Author : Nicolas Verstappen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786164510364
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Thai Comics written by Nicolas Verstappen and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comics flourished following the publication of the first Thai comics strip in 1907. Artists borrowed elements from European and American publications, such as Punch magazine, and created uniquely Thai mash-ups. In the 1930s, one artist combined E. C. Segar's Popeye with the codes of local 'likay' theatre, while another used the neoclassical realism introduced by Italian painters appointed at the Siamese court to give eerie form to the folklore pantheon of Thai ghosts. During the Cold War era, horror tales, anti-communist propaganda and socially engaged graphic novels bore witness to the country's darker years. Then, in the 1990s, Thai comics struggled to compete with the sudden influx of unlicensed manga from Japan that led to a disregard for local efforts and its current 'forgotten' status. After a hiatus, Thai comics made a comeback in the late '90s with a quirky, alternative scene that deserves wider international recognition. Beautifully designed and bursting with stories - from 20th-century interpretations of age-old Buddhist legends to tales of modern-day millennial angst - 'The Art of Thai Comics' opens an enlightening and visually spectacular window onto the country's history, culture and creativity. In doing so, it reinstates Thai comics into the wider story of global comics art.

Thai Art with Indian Influences

Author : Promsak Jermsawatdi
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788170170907
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Thai Art with Indian Influences written by Promsak Jermsawatdi and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 1979 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Present Book, Thai Art With Indian Influences, Studies The Subject In Its Different Spheres. As A Major Pioneering Scholar In The Field, Dr. Promsak Jermsawatdi Possesses An Extraordinary Background In Art History, Aesthetics And Asian History And Philosophy. This Fascinating Study Is One Of His Finest Works Which Will Continue To Be Regarded As One Of The Most Significant Contributions To Our Understanding Of Thai And Indian Art For A Long Time To Come. Divided Into Five Chapters, The Book Takes Into Account Material From The Earliest Archaeological Finds Through The Bangkok Period Including The Early Art And Craft Works. Most Of The Study Deals With Thai Art But India And The Peripheries Of South East Asia Are Covered Where They Reflect Indian Influences. The Focus Of This Study Is Upon Architecture, Sculpture And Iconography. However, It Also Encompasses Other Aspects Of Art And Crafts. Background Information On The History And Geography Of The Area Is Also Provided Along With Philosophical Religious And Social Insights That Are Significantly Valuable To Readers In General And Those Of South-East Asia And India In Particular.As A Student Of Ancient History And Art In India, Dr. Promsak Jermsawatdi Was Deeply Sensitive To The Beauty Of Thai And Indian Art Works. As A Result, The Illustrations He Had Selected Are Unusually Pertinent And Fitting, Comprising Some Of The Most Impressive Examples Of Thai Art. Students Of The History Of Oriental Art Could Ask For No Finer Exposition Of The History And Aesthetics Of Thai And Indian Art. The Author S Penetrating Cultural Insights Make It An Indispensable Text For All Who Plan Further Study In The Field. This Is Also A Book Which General Readers Will Read With Great Interest And Pleasure.

The Roots of Thai Art

Author : Piriya Krairœ̄k
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786167339115
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Roots of Thai Art written by Piriya Krairœ̄k and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the latest work from one of Thailand's leading art historians, Piriya Krairiksh represents the culmination of 30 years research by the author and is sure to be a definitive account of Thai Art History and a major art reference book. It covers 700 years of Thai art history, and looks at both Buddhist and Hindi art from the 5th to 13th centuries. This extensive study incorporates paintings, pottery and architecture, and looks at the mythology surrounding each. The author has been granted access to many private collections, including that of HM The King of Thailand's own collection, as well other private collectors and also many museums. Never before has such a vast collection of items, many never before catalogued in book form, been collected in one place and placed within a contextual overview of the development of Thai Art. Lavishly illustrated with 600 colour illustrations, this work will be a must for all collectors, academics and students of Thai Art, as well as general readers who have an interest in Southeast Asian art. Full Glossary and index are included. ILLUSTRATIONS: 600 colour

The Cycle of Life in the Paintings of Thai Artist Pichai Nirand

Author : Philip Constable
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786162151552
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book The Cycle of Life in the Paintings of Thai Artist Pichai Nirand written by Philip Constable and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paintings of contemporary Thai artist Pichai Nirand (b. 1936) are a vivid exploration of the interplay between Thailand's Buddhist roots and its modern aspirations and struggles. Pichai engages fully with the world and belief system around him. Accompanying the full-color paintings is an incisive examination of the Thai moral and social themes of Pichai's paintings in terms of the Buddhist cycle of life. Philip Constable's sensitive analysis of the social, political, economic, and moral dimensions affecting the artist, coupled with careful reference to other contemporary Thai artists, illuminates the deep meaning and expression behind each painting. This book showcases a celebrated Thai artist who has spent a lifetime providing a Thai Buddhist perspective on the dilemmas and contradictions of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Thai Art

Author : David Teh
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262338920
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Thai Art written by David Teh and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interplay of the local and the global in contemporary Thai art, as artists strive for international recognition and a new meaning of the national. Since the 1990s, Thai contemporary art has achieved international recognition, circulating globally by way of biennials, museums, and commercial galleries. Many Thai artists have shed identification with their nation; but “Thainess” remains an interpretive crutch for understanding their work. In this book, the curator and critic David Teh examines the tension between the global and the local in Thai contemporary art. Writing the first serious study of Thai art since 1992 (and noting that art history and criticism have lagged behind the market in recognizing it), he describes the competing claims to contemporaneity, as staked in Thailand and on behalf of Thai art elsewhere. He shows how the values of the global art world are exchanged with local ones, how they do and don't correspond, and how these discrepancies have been exploited. How can we make sense of globally circulating art without forgoing the interpretive resources of the local, national, or regional context? Teh examines the work of artists who straddle the local and the global, becoming willing agents of assimilation yet resisting homogenization. He describes the transition from an artistic subjectivity couched in terms of national community to a more qualified, postnational one, against the backdrop of the singular but waning sovereignty of the Thai monarchy and sustained political and economic turmoil. Among the national currencies of Thai art that Teh identifies are an agricultural symbology, a Siamese poetics of distance and itinerancy, and Hindu-Buddhist conceptions of charismatic power. Each of these currencies has been converted to a legal tender in global art—signifying sustainability, utopia, the conceptual, and the relational—but what is lost, and what may be gained, in such exchanges?

The Art of Traditional Thai Massage

Author : Asokananda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Traditional Thai Massage written by Asokananda and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Muay Thai

Author : Panyā Kraithat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Muay Thai written by Panyā Kraithat and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Art of Thai Foot Massage

Author : Simon Piers Gall
Publisher : Findhorn Press
ISBN 13 : 1844099555
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Thai Foot Massage written by Simon Piers Gall and published by Findhorn Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both professional practitioners and casual massage enthusiasts will learn to raise their practice to an art with this step-by-step guide to foot massage as traditionally taught in Thailand. The practical sections of the book clearly cover the different parts of the massage process, and color photos and graphics provide clear explanations to help learners utilize the techniques with confidence. The book also covers the history and theory behind Thai foot massage, including discussions about the reflex points on the feet and the concept of Sen (energy) lines that flow throughout the body, to help explain how this ancient healing art works. Though Thai foot massage is not a curative in itself, the featured techniques can promote general health and well-being.

The Art of Thai Massage

Author : Bob Haddad
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1644113732
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Thai Massage written by Bob Haddad and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Presents guidelines for effortless and effective practice, including body mechanics, breathing patterns, flowing movements, incremental pressure, and exercises to improve sensing and to strengthen intuition as you work • Offers ways to refine and improve classic techniques that are often performed incorrectly, explains broad healing concepts behind individual techniques, and discusses the awareness and sensitivity with which they should be performed • Answers common questions, clarifies misunderstandings, and presents ways to work with focused intention on a deeper level, and with more grace, ease, and efficiency UNLIKE OTHER BOOKS ABOUT THAI MASSAGE, this guide offers a deep and insightful view of important and often neglected aspects of this work. Many of these concepts and techniques also apply to table massage, physical therapy, yoga, and other healing arts. This book guides the reader through the conceptual, spiritual, and practical approaches behind effective bodywork. An entire section is dedicated to awareness of breath for massage, movement, and everyday activities. Assessment guidelines help the therapist to work with others based on physical appearance, preexisting conditions, and elemental predisposition. Exercises are presented to sharpen sensing abilities and intuition, and to find, coax, and release blockages in the body. Twelve important Thai massage techniques that are often taught and performed incorrectly are described in great detail. Other chapters offer ways to create customized sequences of practice and to move from one technique to another with ease and grace. Finally, the chapter on medicinal herbs discusses the preparation, use, and benefits of herbal compresses, poultices, balms, oils, and baths, and it offers easy recipes for all of these therapies. This manual contains information that has never been previously available in print. Full of exercises and insights to help therapists hone their bodywork skills, it reveals key principles that give way to effective treatment and explores traditional Thai massage with a special focus on intention, awareness, sensitivity, and spirituality.

Thai Manuscript Painting

Author : Henry Ginsburg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Thai Manuscript Painting written by Henry Ginsburg and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paintings in Thai manuscripts, with their lively detail and vibrant colours, form a rich and varied record of the culture of Old Thailand.

Thai Painting

Author : Jean Boisselier
Publisher : Kodansha
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Thai Painting written by Jean Boisselier and published by Kodansha. This book was released on 1976 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bencharong

Author : Dawn F. Rooney
Publisher : River books
ISBN 13 : 9786167339689
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Bencharong written by Dawn F. Rooney and published by River books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bencharong, a unique class of Chinese export ware, was made exclusively for Thai royalty and the ruling elite in the late 18th and 19th centuries. These rare and highly collectable enamelled porcelain belongs in time and place to the broader tradition of Chinese export art for the European and American markets, but it is distinctively Thai. -- Back cover.

Muay Thai

Author : Kru Tony Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780760761014
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Muay Thai written by Kru Tony Moore and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Arts of Thailand

Author : Steve Van Beek
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462906761
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Arts of Thailand written by Steve Van Beek and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arts of Thailand examines the stunning visual history of Art in Thailand. Blending a multiplicity of cultural influences with their own artistic genius, the Thai people have created some of the world's finest art. In this definitive introduction to Thai art, author Steve Van Beek takes a wide-ranging look at how these diverse forces were fused into a wealth of art forms which are uniquely Thai. As a means to a fuller understanding of Thai culture, he explores the symbolism of architecture, sculptures, and painting. The Arts of Thailand also covers contemporary art and the minor arts. The text by Steve Van Beek, a 30 year resident of Asia with a special interest in art, is based on exhaustive research in museums, libraries, architectural sites and Thai temples, as well as interviews with collectors and art historians.