One of our Leeds colleagues, Dr Ashley Thompson, has guest curated an exhibition of temple inscription rubbings from Angkor Vat. More info is on
http://www.henry-moore.org/hmi/exhibitions/angkor-wat
The exhibition raises a whole host of interesting questions about the limits of display. What is one displaying, when the actual exhibits are French colonial scholars' rubbings of commemorative and votive inscriptions added to a Cambodian Hindu temple by later generations of Buddhists? And the objects (are they sculptures? are they Cambodian or French?) are being shown in a British institution of modernist sculpture? What politics and what aesthetics are involved? This would be well worth a seminar...
Watch out for an education event at the HMI in Jan/Feb.
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