Southeast Asian art today / [contributing authors, Joyce van Fenema ... et al.]

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This lavishly illustrated and authoritative volume introduces the works and ideas of the most promising artists of the region. Southeast Asia is on the verge of entering the international art scene. Steeped in a rich heritage of religious and secular arts and crafts, painters and sculptors have begun to explore forms and functions borrowed from Western cultural traditions. And yet, as this book clearly demonstrates, contemporary Southeast Asian art has its own special qualities, blending unique interpretations of Western concepts within a vibrant ethnic context.