Word: khmers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Seng (see above photograph) has survived quite well for someone who, when he escaped into Thailand two years ago, was nearly dead from malnutrition. His father, a doctor, was killed by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge soldiers. The policies of the Khmer Rouge included the execution of Cambodian intellectuals. Kim Seng watched his father being taken away in a helicopter, and for a long time in the refugee camp at Khao I Dang, all he drew were pictures of helicopters...
...will you go back to Cambodia one day and fight the Khmer Rouge...
Three Cambodian heads gazed nobly at the reader from the glossy cover of Arts of Asia, an elegant and respected bi-monthly published in Hong Kong. The sandstone faces, 900-year-old survivors of the fabled Khmer kingdom of Angkor, had been chosen to set the theme of a recent issue devoted to antique Cambodian art, a high-priced passion among collectors around the world. Few readers knew that the images on the cover had been given new noses and restorative face-lifts by a young Thai artist known simply as Yas. Or that Yas, in his busy, unnamed shop...
...qualms about his restoration work on Khmer originals-about half of his studio's output-but he has mixed feelings when he sees his work for sale as the authentic article. "Sometimes I'm proud because they are so good," he admits, "but sometimes I'm afraid people will find out and get angry." In any case, he adds, "the dealers sell them for too much...
...manages to sign those pieces he deems his best. He may bury his signature in the elaborate headdress of a Khmer head or seal a piece of paper with his name on it inside a statue. "If they're perfect," says the master copier, "I always sign my name somewhere. That way I'll know which are mine...