P1970.2382: Untitled (east entrance gate, Angkor Thom, Cambodia)
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- P1970.2382
- People
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Ben Shahn, American (Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania 1898 - 1969 New York, NY)
- Title
- Untitled (east entrance gate, Angkor Thom, Cambodia)
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- February 28, 1960-March 1, 1960
- Places
- Creation Place: Southeast Asia, Cambodia, Angkor
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/302136
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- image: 9 x 14.5 cm (3 9/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Bernarda Bryson Shahn
- Copyright
- © President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Object Number
- P1970.2382
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- The motif of large figures carrying a thick pole horizontally is a common motif in sculpture, relief sculpture, and 2-dimensional representation at the temples of Angkor. It probably represents the story of "the churning of the sea of milk by the gods." See Dumarçay and Smithies, Cultural Sites of Burma, Thailand, and Cambodia (Oxford U. Press, 1990), 99.
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