Angkor, the Serenity of Buddhism
New York: Thames & Hudson, 1993. Folio. 159 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket with a few small marks. Item #409121
ISBN: 9780500541821
First American edition. "Angkor, the ancient seat of the god-kings of Cambodia, is the great treasury of Khmer artistic culture whose evocative, enigmatic sculptures are known throughout the world. Marc Riboud, the celebrated French photographer, visited the site several times, first in the late 1960s and most recently in November 1990, capturing its monuments and inhabitants before and after the terrible years of the Khmer Rouge and the Killing Fields. Riboud shows not only the toppled edifices, the lichened Buddhas and the roofless galleries of Angkor's two most famous sites of Angkor Wat and the Bayon, but the invasive power of the surrounding jungle, whose roots and creepers crawl over the stonework, clawing at the vast impassive faces of the monuments" (the publisher).
Price: $80.00