The Art and Culture of Bali

The Art and Culture of Bali
Author: Urs Ramseyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 265
Release: 1986
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780195826845

The island of Bali has always held a unique attraction for travelers, whose numbers increase yearly. Part of the island's appeal lies in its rich folk art, which has deep religious motivation. This magnificently-illustrated volume explicates the social, religious, and philosophic concepts that dominate the lives of the Balinese and find expression in their paintings, temples, ritual offerings, music, dance, and dramatic arts.

The Malay World of Southeast Asia

The Malay World of Southeast Asia
Author: Patricia Lim Pui Huen
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 469
Release: 1986
Genre: History
ISBN: 9971988364

Over 5,000 entries arranged in four parts. Part I comprises reference and general works to provide a guide to information on Southeast Asia. Part II provides the setting of space and time. Part III features the people and Part IV the many facets of culture and society — language; ideas, beliefs, values; institutions; creative expression; and social and cultural change. Within each section, the arrangement is geographical, beginning with Southeast Asia as a whole followed by the various countries in alphabetical order.

Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance

Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance
Author: Natasha Reichle
Publisher: Asian Art Museum  
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2011-02-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780939117550

Featuring hundreds of full-color photographs, paintings, figurines, crafts, and furniture Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance is an exploration of the very best Balinese culture has to offer. For nearly a century, mention of Bali has evoked images of a tropical paradise. But it is not only the beauty of the island that has attracted artists, dancers, celebrities and scholars. Bali is also famed for its vibrant performance and ritual arts traditions. Although the island is so small it can be circled in a day, it is home to more than 20,000 temples, and each of these produces annual festivals. Where ritual is such a part of daily life, one cannot draw clear lines between the secular and the religious arts. Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance presents a holistic view of the ways that art, ritual, and performance interrelate within the seamless fabric of Balinese life.

The Folk Art of Bali

The Folk Art of Bali
Author: Joseph Fischer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The Folk Art of Bali focuses on the Balinese narrative tradition as represented in classic painting, in shadow puppets, in painting on glass, and in embroideries. This tradition includes the Ramayana and the Mahabharata epics, Tantri stories, Jataka tales, and folklore. Most of the folk art depictions in this book have never been reproduced before. They demonstrate the aesthetic attraction, high skill, great diversity, and sacred significance of art in the past and present cultural life of Bali.

Voices in Bali

Voices in Bali
Author: Edward Herbst
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2012-01-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0819573280

A scholar and trained performer of Balinese vocal music and dance, ethnomusicologist Edward Herbst brings unique talents to bear in this provocative book. The lessons of his Balinese masters enable him to offer fresh insight to this culture's aesthetics and cultural elements. Appropriating John Cage's effective style of "mixing theory, anecdote, context, philosophy, and humor," Herbst crafts an accessible body of work, compelling in substance and form. By merging the "Balinese concept of place-time-context with Cage's concepts of structure, method, and form, [Herbst] returns to the critical issue of what scholars and intercultural artists are doing, and 'what' is their 'object' under study." Undergraduates and scholars in fields as varied as theater studies and anthropology will find this book and companion CD (in print editions) an important resource not only for its knowledgeable treatment of Balinese culture, but as an example of a more personal and engaging style of scholarly discourse. The ebook edition includes embedded audio.

The Balinese

The Balinese
Author: Hugh Mabbett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2001
Genre: Bali (Indonesia : Province)
ISBN:

Translating for Museums, Galleries and Heritage Sites

Translating for Museums, Galleries and Heritage Sites
Author: Robert Neather
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2024-07-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1351333623

In any museum, gallery, or heritage site that wishes to engage with foreign-language visitors, translation is essential. Providing texts in foreign languages – whether for international visitors from different language cultures or for heritage speakers of local minority languages – is centrally important in enabling these visitors to make sense of what they see displayed. Yet despite this awareness, and a growing body of research in the field, there has hitherto been little available in the way of practical training in this area of translation. This book aims to help fill that need. Translating for Museums, Galleries and Heritage Sites focuses on the translation of interpretive and information texts, particularly in the museum context. After an initial introduction and an overview of key concepts in both museums and translation, it looks at three broad groupings of texts from the museum text system: fixed labels and wall panels, leaflets and other portable learning resources, and catalogues and guides, including a section on websites. It concludes with a call to place translation centre stage in museum, gallery, and heritage practice. The book will be of use as a coursebook for students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and for practitioners in the sector, and is designed to be suitable for both individual and class-based learning.