| Description |
140 pages, 160 unnumbered pages of plates. : illustrations (part color) ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
The beginnings -- The Paleolithic -- The Mesolithic -- The Neolithic -- The Megalithic -- The Bronze-Iron Age -- The art of the ancient peoples -- Sumatra -- Nias -- The Bataks -- Lampong -- Borneo -- Celebes -- The Toradjas -- The Minahassas -- The Lesser Sunda islands -- The Moluccas -- The Southwest and Southeast islands -- Ceram -- Halmahera -- The Hindu-Indonesian period -- The New Indonesian culture and its art -- Bali -- Toward modern art -- Bibliography -- Descriptions of illustrations -- Detailed description of color plates -- Detailed description of black-and-white plates -- List of drawings -- Plates |
| Summary |
Indonesia, that exotic group of luch islands lying southeast of the Asian continet and bisected by the Equator, has always had a magnetic appeal. In pre-historic times, Mongoloid tribes from the continet introduced the cultivation of rice and displaced the primative 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 - the Dutch established a colonial empire. All these groups contributed to the rich diversity of Indonesian 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 Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, went to Indonesia in 1964 and 1965 on a Unesco grant to study indigenous art forms. He is a specialist in the ethnology of art and the cultural history of Oceania and the South Pacific. (Inside cover) |
| Notes |
Translation of Indonezia muveszete |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 109-115 |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Indonesia.
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Art, Indonesian.
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| SUBJECT |
Indonesia -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065734
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| LC no. |
76154331 |
| ISBN |
0821204068 |
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