Batik: From the Courts of Java and Sumatra
With beautiful full-color Batik cloths and extensive historical and cultural commentary, Batik: From the Courts of Java and Sumatra is a fundamental work in the field of Indonesian art and culture.Batik occupies a special position in Indonesia. The extraordinary photographs of cloths and prints in this book demonstrate why batik is the stuff of textile legend. These 71 batik designs, taken from the collection of famed dealer Rudolf G. Smend, date from 1880-1930, a time still considered batik's golden age.Emanating from the provicial and stately courts of Yogyakarta and Surakarta in Central Java are hip, chest, shoulder, and head cloths in con…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Majlis, Brigitte Khan / Veldhuisen, Harmen C.
- ISBN: 978-1-4629-0695-6
- EAN: 9781462906956
- Produktnummer: 21858180
- Verlag: Tuttle Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 16'145 KB
- Abbildungen: 80 color photos; 16 historical photos in sepia
Über den Autor
Rudolf G. Smend is a passionate batik collector and owner of Galerie Smend in Cologne, Germany. Brigitte Khan Majlis is Curator of Textiles at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum of Ethnology in Cologne.
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