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Cambodia's Trauma, Rebirth Reflected in Khmer Sculptor's Work at Met


Cambodia's Trauma, Rebirth Reflected in Khmer Sculptor's Work at Met
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In the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge murdered some two million Cambodians and sacked the country’s cultural treasure, attempting to exterminate all art, knowledge and religion. The struggle by Cambodians to recover from that terror is embodied in the revival of the arts in that nation. Sculptor Sopheap Pich is one among many Cambodian artists whose work has flowered in recent years. Carolyn Weaver report.

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