Cultural diversity: ideas, forms, and societies -- Understanding the aesthetics of Southeast Asia -- Flowering of classical arts, from imitation to synthesis and innovation -- Art styles of hindu and buddhist images -- Myth of creation and southeast asian cosmology : integrating social, political, artistic, and cosmic order -- Art and aesthetics in muslim countries -- Art as tool of political propaganda -- Encounter with the west -- The Dilemma of contemporary culture and the arts -- Art as instrument in nation building

1. Art
2. Southeast Asian
3. Southeast Asia -- Civilization