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Centered on the early Cambodian masterpiece Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan in the Cleveland Museum of Art, seven essays present new research and discoveries regarding its history, material, and context. Introducing the Cleveland Krishna as one of eight monumental sculptures of Hindu deities from the sacred mountain of Phnom Da, the museum’s curator presents evidence for its establishment in a cave sanctuary and recounts
its fascinating journey from there to Cleveland in multiple pieces—including a decades-long detour of being buried in a garden in Belgium. Conservators and scientists elucidate the long-fraught process of identifying the sculptural fragments that belong to the Cleveland Krishna and explain the new reconstructions unveiled in the 2021 exhibition Revealing
Krishna: Journey to Cambodia’s Sacred Mountain.
An international team of specialists in the history of art, archaeology, and anthropology place the Cleveland Krishna amid the material traces of a sophisticated population based in the Mekong River delta at the ancient metropolis known as Angkor Borei. They reveal the long-lasting influence and prestige of the site, well into the Angkorian period, more than six hundred years after the creation of the Cleveland Krishna and the gods of Phnom Da. This is the fifth in the Cleveland Masterworks Series.
Price: $28.95
Pages: 192
Publisher: D Giles Limited
Imprint: GILES
Series: Cleveland Masterwork
Publication Date:
09 November 2021
Trim Size: 8.50 X 8.50 in
ISBN: 9781911282785
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
ART / Asian / Indian & South Asian, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Permanent Collections, HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia, ART / Sculpture & Installation
Sonya Rhie Mace is George P. Bickford Curator of Indian and Southeast Asian Art, Cleveland Museum of Art
Bertrand Porte is sculpture conservator, École française d’Extrême-Orient in Phnom Penh
Choulean Ang is professor of Historical Anthropology, Faculty of Archaeology, Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh
Pierre Baptiste is curator of Southeast Asian Art, National Museum of Asian Arts, Guimet, Paris
Socheat Chea is sculpture conservator, National Museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh
Beth Edelstein is objects conservator, Cleveland Museum of Art
Christian Fischer is co-director, UCLA/Getty Conservation Interdepartmental Program, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Los Angeles
Colleen Snyder is associate objects conservator, Cleveland Museum of Art
Amaris Sturm is Mellon Fellow, Objects Conservation, Cleveland Museum of Art
Thierry Zéphir is project manager for Southeast Asia, National Museum of Asian Arts, Guimet, Paris
Director’s Foreword; Acknowledgments; Plates; Maps; The Cleveland Krishna: Image, Site, and Provenance by Sonya Rhie Mace; A Conservation History of the Krishna at the Cleveland Museum of Art by Beth Edelstein, Colleen Snyder, Amaris Sturm; Stone Material Culture at Phnom Da: New Insights from Recent Scientific Investigations by Christian Fischer; The Sculptor of Phnom Da: Birth and Conservation of a Statuary by Bertrand Porte and CHEA Socheat; Expressing Royal Magnificence: The City of Angkor Borei and the Sacred Site of Phnom Da by Pierre Baptiste; Note on Representations of Krishna in the Angkorian Period by Thierry Zéphir; Nostalgia or Appropriation of the South by ANG Choulean; Appendix: Eight Gods of Phnom Da: Table of Discoveries and Transfers; Bibliography; Index; The Cleveland Museum of Art Board of Trustees