The Kingdom of Siam: The Art of Central Thailand, 1350-1800 by Forrest McGill (Author), M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati (Author), Kaz Tsuruta (Photographer)
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The Kingdom of Siam: The Art of Central Thailand, 1350-1800 Description
In 1686 King Louis XIV of France had the great Hall of Mirrors in Versailles specially prepared to receive, with exceptional pomp and ceremony, a group of foreign envoys. The envoys brought with them two shiploads of gifts for the court. In fact they delivered so many objects of gold, silver, and lacquer the French complained that their list would be as long as a book. The envoys had been sent from the kingdom of Ayutthaya, or "Siam," as it was know in the West. Though little remembered today, Ayutthaya was one of the largest and most important kingdoms in Southeast Asia.The Kingdom of Siam: The Art of Central Tahiland, 1350รป1800 documents the first U.S. exhibition of classical art from Thailand in more than thirty years. It collects eighty-nine of the finest surviving works from Ayutthaya; drawn from collections in Thailand, Europe, and the United States, many of these are being displayed for the first time in the West. The catalogue, prepared under the primary direction of Forrest McGill, chief curator of the Asian Art Museum, is not only a work of exceptional scholarship but also the fascinating story of a once-glorious culture that until now had been almost entirely lost in the mists of time.
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2005-02-23By T. Xensen (San Francisco)
The Kingdom of Siam commemorates an extraordinay exhibition of Thai art that opened February 2005 at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. It is the result of a lifetime of research by Dr. Forrest McGill. In the amazon listing as it appears at this writing the publisher information is incorrect. The book was co-published in the United States by the Asian Art Museum and Art Media Resources.
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