The Sculpture of Indonesia

The Sculpture of Indonesia
Author: Jan Fontein
Publisher: ABRAMS
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1990
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Shows bells, lamps, vases, statuettes, and water vessels created between the eighth and fifteenth centuries.

Patterned Splendour

Patterned Splendour
Author: Lesley Pullen
Publisher: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9814881856

There exist numerous free-standing figurative sculptures produced in Java between the eighth and fifteenth centuries whose dress display detailed textile patterns. This surviving body of sculpture, carved in stone and cast in metal, varying in both size and condition, remains in archaeological sites and museums in Indonesia and worldwide. The equatorial climate of Java has precluded any textiles from this period surviving. Therefore this book argues the textiles represented on these sculptures offer a unique insight into the patterned splendour of the textiles in circulation during this period. This volume contributes to our knowledge of the textiles in circulation at that time by including the first comprehensive record of this body of sculpture, together with the textile patterns classified into a typology of styles within each chapter.

Indonesian Primitive Art

Indonesian Primitive Art
Author: Irwin Hersey
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1991
Genre: Art
ISBN:

An introduction to the tribal art of the numerous groups of the Indonesian archipelago, as it evolved from the Dong-son culture of northern Vietnam and developed as a result of common beliefs in animism, ancestor worship, and customary law (adat).

Messages in Stone

Messages in Stone
Author: Jean Paul Barbier
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Numerose sono le isole dell'Insulindia che vantano colossali monumenti e statue di pietra tali da gareggiare con i giganti dell'isola di Pasqua; nonostante ciĆ² queste affascinanti manifestazioni artistiche sono state finora oggetto solo di studi specialistici, rimanendo in gran parte sconosciute al grande pubblico. Il volume, che comprende i saggi di Alan Viaro, Arlette Ziegler, Jean Paul Barbier e Janet Hoskins, analizza le diverse tipologie, significati e funzioni di queste suggestive sculture monumentali attraverso una selezione di cinquanta esemplari delle straordinarie collezioni del Museo Barbier-Mueller. Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali

The Bronze-Iron Age of Indonesia

The Bronze-Iron Age of Indonesia
Author: H.R. Heekeren
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9401509093

The art of metal casting was imported into Indonesia, but its peoples mastered the secrets of metallurgy, and applied these, in ways often original and unique, to create their own distinctive civilisation of the Bronze-Iron Age. In this handbook, which is a sequal to my The Stone Age of Indo nesia, I have endeavoured to assemble a comprehensive picture of the Indonesian Bronze-Iron Age from the results of excavations, innumerable stray finds in museums, and various studies scattered among numerous scientific journals and periodicals (often difficult to obtain). The resulting picture can, of course, be a tentative one only, valid until many more scientific excavations have taken place. I have added a bibliography, as complete as it was possible to assemble. The completion of this summary of the Prehistory of Indonesia has been assisted by a grant-in-aid from the Wenner Gren Foundation "The Viking Fund", New York. I am grateful to Mr. Basoeki and Mr. Soebokastowo for the drawings of Figures 1, 11, 12, 13, 22 and 16, 23, 24, 25 respectively. Figures 2-10 and 15 were drawn by the well-known artist, the late Mas Pirngadie, and are here published for the first time, with the generous permission of the Board of Directors of the "Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen", Djakarta. I am deeply grateful to my brother-in-law, Mr. J. H. Reiseger of Kempston, Bedfordshire, for so willingly undertaking the translation of the Dutch text into English.

Textiles of Indonesia

Textiles of Indonesia
Author: The Thomas Murray Collection
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-01-25
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 3791387650

Drawn from one of the world's leading textile collections, this magnificently presented array of traditional weavings from the Indonesian archipelago provides a unique window into the region's cultures, rites, and history. Gathered over the course of four decades, the Thomas Murray collection of Indonesian textiles is one of the most important privately owned collections of its type in the world. The objects comprise ritual clothing and ceremonial cloths that tell us much about the traditions of pre-Islamic Indonesian cultures, as well as about the influences of regional trade with China, India, the Arab world, and Europe. As with the earlier volume, Textiles of Japan (Prestel, 2018), the book focuses on some of the finest cloths to come out of the archipelago, presenting each object with impeccable photographs, colors, patterns, and intricate details. Geographically arranged, this volume pays particular attention to textiles from the Batak and the Lampung region of Sumatra, the Dayak of Borneo, and the Toraja of Sulawesi, as well as rare textiles from Sumba, Timor and other islands. Readers will learn about the intricate and highly developed traditions of dyeing, weaving, and beading techniques that have been practiced for centuries, resulting in a breathtaking collection of motifs, patterns, dyes, and adornments. Original texts by leading international experts draw on the latest research to offer historical context, unspool the mysteries behind ancient iconography, and provide new insights into dating and provenance. At once opulent and scholarly, this book arrives at a moment of growing interest in Southeast Asian culture and carries the imprimatur of one of the art world's leading collectors. Full List of Contributors: Lorraine Aragon, Joanna Barrkman, Chris Buckley, Kristal Hale, Valerie Hector, Janet Alison Hoskins, Itie van Hout, Eric Kjellgren, Fiona Kerlogue, Brigitte Khan Majlis, Robyn Maxwell, Thomas Murray, and Sandra Sardjono.

Forgotten Islands of Indonesia

Forgotten Islands of Indonesia
Author: Nico De Jonge
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2012-10-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1462909469

This beautiful book contains fascinating text and over 170 unique photographs of one of the most interesting but least well known cultures in the Indonesian Archipelago. The traditional art of Maluku Tenggara, the Southeast Moluccas, is among the most sophisticated and expressive in the world. Simple tools were used to create masterpieces in wood, stone, textiles and precious metals, while the plaited work and earthenware of these islands are also of the very highest quality. the colonial period plunged the region into hopeless isolation. During the harsh rule of the Dutch many traditional woks of art, especially ancestor statues, were destroyed. Later, collectors stripped the islands of their masterpieces and the culture of Maluka Tenggara was forgotten. Forgotten Islands of Indonesia presents a unique survey of the finest examples of Southeast Moluccan art. This volume contains many photographs and descriptions which have never before been published. Set against the cultural background and supplemented by rare photographs taken in the field, the material culture of Maluku Tenggara, which is regarded as one of the most fascinating areas of Indonesia, is presented here comprehensively for the first time.