Making merit, making art [electronic resource] : a Thai temple in Wimbledon / Sandra Cate

Author	Cate, Sandra
Title	Making merit, making art [electronic resource] : a Thai temple in Wimbledon / Sandra Cate
Imprint	Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2003
Connect to	http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=92219
Descript	xiv, 218 p. : ill. (some col.)

CONTENT

Finding a place -- Long-distance merit making -- Thai art and the authority of the past -- From Buddhist stories to modern art -- "Going outside" and the experience of modernity -- Art, identity, and performance -- Tourists and templegoers, religion, and art

Wat Buddhapadipa (London England) Mural painting and decoration Thai -- England -- London -- 20th century Mural painting and decoration Buddhist -- England -- London Electronic books.