BRITISH CULTURE

SOUTHEAST ASIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE
CONTENT
1. The early history: the Dong Son culture
2. Khmer art and architecture
3. Vietnamese art
4. Thai art
5. Laotian and Burmese art and architecture
6. Indonesian art and architecture

The early history:
DONG SON CULTURE
various artifacts of great beauty have been excavated:

ornaments, lamps, and tomb furnishings, etc.
massive bronze drums – part of ritual to create rain

Ngoc Lu bronze drum, found around 1893–1894,
2. Khmer art and architecture
Indravarman (877-89), the first Khmer king, began construction of Angkor, a remarkable temple-city:
*Angkor Wat: Hindu temple complex - built in the early 12th cent. under Suryavarman II
*Angkor Thom: royal city and Buddhist temple complex - built in the early 13th cent. under Jayavarman VII
ANGKOR WAT
ANGKOR THOM
3. Vietnamese art
Champa art
ceramics
Champa art
Standing Four-armed Vishnu
CERAMICS
4. Thai art
Four-armed Avalokiteshvara
(The Bodhisattva of Infinite
Compassion)
Thailand (Buriram Province,
Prakhon Chai).
ca. second quarter of 8th
century.
Bronze, silver, and black
glass or obsidian inlay.
H. 56 in. (142.2 cm)
Thai sculpture
5. Laotian and Burmese art & architecture
Temples and pagodas
6. Indonesian architecture
Borobudur, a Hindu-Buddhist temple on the island of Java in Indonesia with eight stone terraces built in steps, one on top of the other. Constructed in the 9th century and abandoned in the 11th century