Art of Indonesia

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Art of Indonesia Tibor Bodrogi 16 color plates, 15 7 black-and-white illustrations. Indonesia, that exotic group of lush islands lying southeast of the Asian continent and bisected by the Equator, has always had a magnetic appeal. In pre-historic times, Mongoloid tribes from the continent introduced the cultivation of rice and displaced the primitive migratory tribes, remnants of which still exist deep in the jungles. Settlers from many other lands followed, all bringing their languages, customs and religions. In modern times, the Chinese became gold miners, farmers and traders - and the Dutch established a colonial empire. All these groups contríbuted to the rich diversity oflndonesian culture and to the art and architecture which reflect it. The art and architecture of Indonesia, from Megalithic to contemporary times, and the social background from which they spring, are here revealed in illustrations and text. Beginning with the ancestral statues and demons of tribal societies,... Tovább

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Art of Indonesia Tibor Bodrogi 16 color plates, 15 7 black-and-white illustrations. Indonesia, that exotic group of lush islands lying southeast of the Asian continent and bisected by the Equator, has always had a magnetic appeal. In pre-historic times, Mongoloid tribes from the continent introduced the cultivation of rice and displaced the primitive migratory tribes, remnants of which still exist deep in the jungles. Settlers from many other lands followed, all bringing their languages, customs and religions. In modern times, the Chinese became gold miners, farmers and traders - and the Dutch established a colonial empire. All these groups contríbuted to the rich diversity oflndonesian culture and to the art and architecture which reflect it. The art and architecture of Indonesia, from Megalithic to contemporary times, and the social background from which they spring, are here revealed in illustrations and text. Beginning with the ancestral statues and demons of tribal societies, this book follows the course of Indonesian culture, through ancient Javanese art, to that of the Twentieth Century. The author, Tibor Bodrogi, of the Hungárián Academy of Science, Budapest, went to Indonesia in 1964 and 1965 on a Unesco grant to study indigenous art forms. He is a speciálist in the ethnology of art and the cultural history of Oceania and the South Pacific. Vissza