Mercredi 18 octobre 2006 / Wednesday, October 18th 2006 Conference of John GUY: Votive tablets
Mercredi 18 octobre 2006 / Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
Vous êtes cordialement invités à la présentation informelle
You are cordially invited to attend the following informal presentation
Circulating the Buddha: Votive tablets and ritual paraphenalia in Buddhist Southeast Asia
John GUY
Senior Curator for South and Southeast Asian Art
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
This talk will survey the evidence for the circulation of Buddhist votive tablets in mainland and insular Southeast Asia, around the close of the first millennium. It will also review the implications of the discovery of ritual utensils in 10th and 11th century shipwreck cargoes in western Indonesia, and their significance for our understanding of Southeast Asian Buddhism at this time. "
John Guy, M.A, F.S.A., is Senior Curator for South and Southeast Asian Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. His research interests focus on Indian temple arts and India's cultural relations with Southeast Asia in the fields of sculpture and textiles. He has worked on a number of archaeological excavations, at both land and maritime sites, and served as an advisor to UNESCO on historical sites in Southeast Asia. He has curated and co-curated a number of exhibitions, including The Peaceful Liberators. Jain Art from India (1995), Unseen Indian Bronzes (2000) and contributed to others, most recently Vietnam Art and Culture (Brussels, 2003), Encounters: the Meeting of East and West (V&A, 2004) and La sculpture du Champa (Paris, 2005-6). Major publications include Oriental Trade Ceramics in South East Asia (1986), Ceramic Traditions of Southeast Asia (1989), Indian Art and Connoisseurship (1995), Vietnamese Ceramics: A Separate Tradition (1997) and Woven Cargoes. Indian Textiles in the East (1998). His latest book, Indian Temple Sculpture, is published in spring 2007 by V&A Publications.
18 h 30, Mercredi 18 octobre 2006, au centre de l'EFEO.
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006, at 6:30 pm at the EFEO.
Presentation will be in English - La présentation sera en Anglais
Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) Siem Reap
P.O. Box 93 300, Siem Reap - Angkor
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