Guided tour : Khmer art - Musée national des Arts asitiques Guimet

The collection of Khmer sculptures held at the Musée Guimet is, outside of Cambodia, the most complete in the world. It offers an exhaustive panorama of ancient Khmer art between the 6th and 19th centuries.

This exceptional collection has never been the subject of a comprehensive catalogue. In an attempt to fill this major gap, this book presents a large selection of masterpieces chronologically, in accordance with the major stylistic divisions of Khmer art. The catalogue is introduced by an essay on the history of these sculptures, from their rediscovery in Cambodian monuments in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. Each work is the subject of a detailed entry, accompanied by a selective bibliography and several illustrations presenting the sculpture from various angles. The catalogue is supplemented in the appendix by 168 works presented in the form of captioned vignettes.

Under the expertise of Isabelle Poujol, in charge of the photo library and the communication of the Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient, specialist of the art of Southeast Asia