Madeleine Giteau
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Madeleine Giteau (1918-2005) is a French historian, member of the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, who has devoted a great part of her life to research on the art and archeology of Cambodia and Laos. Madeleine Giteau left a rich body of scholarly work including publications on Khmer sculpture and iconography and the art of Laos, when she died in February 2005, aged eighty-six. She was the last French curator of Cambodia's National Museum (known as the Albert Sarraut Museum) in Phnom Penh for a ten-year period from 1956. In 1963 she also took on the re-organisation of the Wat Po Veal and the Provincial Museums in Battambang.
Madeleine Giteau was one of the last in a long line of French explorers, curators and scholars who have each made invaluable contributions to Southeast Asian history, art and archaeology that include: Henri Mouhot, Louis Delaporte, Etienne Aymonier, Lunet de Lajonquière, Henri Marchal, George Coedès, George Groslier, Henri Parmentier, Louis Finot and Jean Boisselier.
[edit] Selected bibliography
- 1956 - Histoire du Cambodge, Paris, Hattier.
- 1960 - Guide du musée national [de Phnom Penh], 2 vol. (1. La sculpture ; 2. Pièces archéologiques et stèles), Phnom Penh.
- 1965 - Les Khmers. Sculptures khmères, reflets de la civilisation d’Angkor, Fribourg, Office du Livre.
- 1969 - Le bornage rituel des temples bouddhiques au Cambodge, Paris, EFEO (PEFEO, 68), 153 p., 29 pl.
- 1974 - Histoire d’Angkor, Paris, PUF (Que sais-je ?, 1580), [réimpr. Paris, Kailash, 1996].
- 1975 - Iconographie du Cambodge post-angkorien, Paris, EFEO (PEFEO, 100), 381 p., 88 pl.
- 1976 - Angkor, un peuple, un art, Fribourg, Office du Livre.
- 1994 - Regards sur Angkor, Paris, Éditions Chapitre Douze.
- 1997 - (with Danielle Guéret), L’art khmer, reflet des civilisations d’Angkor, Paris, ASA & Somogy.
- 2001 - Art et archéologie du Laos, Paris, Picard.
