This volume provides an overview of Thailand's rich artistic variety. Art found in Thailand (previously named Siam) stretches over more than two millennia. Of g

The interplay of the local and the global in contemporary Thai art, as artists strive for international recognition and a new meaning of the national. Since the

Essential Desires: Contemporary Art in Thailand is the first major, fully illustrated survey of Thai art in thirty years. Brian Curtin shows how Thai artists ne

Special attention is given in the early chapters to King Chulalongkorn, whose patronage played a major role in disseminating Western art in Bangkok, and to the

Comics flourished following the publication of the first Thai comics strip in 1907. Artists borrowed elements from European and American publications, such as P