This pioneering celebration of Thai pop and folk culture delves beyond the traditional icons to reveal the everyday expressions of Thainess that so delight and puzzle. Through colorful text and quirky photos, explore the country's alternative sights, from truck art and taxi altars to buffalo cart furniture and drinks in bags. The Siamese blend of finesse with fun resounds through home and. Very Thai: Everyday Popular Culture: Author: Philip Cornwel-Smith: Photographs by: Philip Cornwel-Smith, John Goss: Edition: illustrated, reprint: Publisher: River Books, Original from: the 4/5(1). · But Philip Cornwel-Smith’s Very Thai: Everyday Popular Culture is the first book that I know of to try to explain Thailand as it is today. This is a prodigiously illustrated (by the photographer John Goss) text, accessible, but informative enough that even people who’ve lived in Thailand for decades will find plenty they didn’t know.
About Very Thai Very Bangkok The influential bestselling book Very Thai: Everyday Popular Culture is now fully updated and expanded into a new 2nd Edition. See below for details on the follow-up: Very Bangkok; In the City of the Senses. This pioneering insight into Thai pop and streetlife has been totally revised to reflect the dramatic changes in Thailand. Philip Cornwel-Smith A writer, editor and photographer, Philip focuses on culture in Southeast Asia, especially Thailand, where he has lived since Born in England, he has continuously worked in some form of publishing through school, university and work in the UK editing books (Brassey's, Queen Anne Press), newspaper listings (Guardian. Will be clean, not soiled or stained. Email to friends Share on Facebook - opens in a new window or tab Share on Twitter - opens in a new window or tab Share on Pinterest - opens in a new window or tab.
Philip Cornwel-Smith turns Bangkok into a vast tapestry of meditations on the nature of cities combining whimsy, erudition, and a sensual precision of language. Since publishing Very Thai, Cornwel-Smith has become the city’s preeminent mythographer in the English language. The city is re-seen, re-imagined as a vast complex of signs which requires the informal encyclopedia which he has written. Buy Very Thai: Everyday Popular Culture by Philip Cornwel-Smith (Photographer), John Goss (Photographer) online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 1 editions - starting at $ Philip Cornwel-Smith, John Goss. · Rating details · ratings · 18 reviews. This pioneering insight into contemporary Thai folk culture delves beyond the traditional Thai icons to reveal the casual, everyday expressions of Thainess that sodelight and puzzle. From floral truck bolts and taxi altars to buffalo cart furniture and drinks in a bags, the same exquisite care, craft and improvisation resounds through home and street, bar and wardrobe.
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