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Indonesian Textiles at the Tropenmuseum
The Tropenmuseum Amsterdam houses about 12,000 textile objects that were collected over a period of 160 years. The majority of the objects were amassed during the time that Indonesia was a Dutch colony, the former Netherlands-Indies. This study presents the collection and the stories of the makers and users of the fabrics as well as those of the collectors who brought them to the Netherlands, who have studied and exhibited them. The textiles originate from all over the archipelago, from Aceh on Sumatra, to Tinambar in the east. A small part of the collection was made in the Netherlands for artistic or commercial reasons.
A Passion for Indonesian Art
Georg Tilmann was a Jewish banker who left Germany in the early 1930s to settle in the Netherlands where he became a passionate collector of Indonesian art. Tillmann also made a name for himself with his publications on the evolution of textile designs, comparing their motifs and tracing the connections between the various peoples of Southeast Asia. A Passion Indonesian Art documents Tillmann's collection, illustrating textiles, sculptures, weaponry, religious objects, and other artefacts. One of Tillmann's publications, translated from the Dutch, is also included.
Batik
From about 1840 onwards, batiks found their way from what was called the Netherlands East Indies, then under Dutch colonial rule, to the Netherlands, where they were kept in private and public collections. Owing to Holland's great interest in Batik, Amsterdam's Tropenmuseum now owns a collection of over 3000 pieces. Many represent the major batik centres that emerged on Java, Madura and Sumatra. Batiks tell the stories of their maker, their wearers and eventual collectors. By studying the history of individual pieces from their creation to their arrival in the Tropenmuseum, we can relate them to their shared history. Batik became a product of intercultural contact in a society where different ethnic groups lived next to or with each other. This book focuses on this communication, on batiks as visual witnesses of cultural encounter within the East but also between the East and the West. This book will appeal to anyone interested in Indonesian arts and textiles. It is a rich source of study for scholars interested in the art of batik and the society in which it developed to its high level of perfection.
Rita Bolland (1919-2006)
Margarita (Rita) Adriana Bolland began her career at the Tropenmuseum in 1947 and retired 37 years later as Curator of Textiles from that same institution. She was highly regarded worldwide for the excellence of her approach to the study of cloth. She is known especially for demonstrating that the way a hand-woven cloth is assembled is as important as the cloth itself and that the best way to study textile techniques is to do it yourself. In this volume, Rita Bollands friends and colleagues celebrate her and her accomplishments, focusing on the uniqueness, scope, and importance of her approach to non-Western textiles.
Anthropological Resources
This work provides access to information on the rich and often little known legacy of anthropological scholarship preserved in a diversity of archives, libraries and museums. Selected anthropological manuscripts, papers, fieldnotes, site reports, photographs and sound recordings in more than 150 repositories are described. Coverage of resources in North American repositories is extensive while Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Australia and certain other countries are more selectively represented. Entries are arranged by repository location and most contributors draw upon a special knowledge of the resources described. Contributors include James R. Glenn (National Anthropological Archi...
Batik. Traces through time
The batik of Java has a special place in museum textile collections and aspects of the art of batik have been discussed at length in countless publications. This study, based on the batik collections of the Náprstek Museum, raises a number of questions which have been so far underexplored. How strong is the evidence for the early manufacture of batik in Java? How and when did batik-making become widely practised there? Was it made by village women for their own use? How and why did batik develop into an industry employing thousands of people, filling warehouses with stock to be distributed throughout the Indonesian archipelago? What was the effect of the introduction of wax printing and of aniline dyes? It is often asserted that batik carries deep meaning. To what extent is this really the case? When did batik depicting wayang or shadow puppet figures start to be made, and who for? What was the role of calligraphy batiks? And what was it that drew European collectors to batik in the early 20th century? What local circumstances governedtheir choices? In a series of essays, this volume explores these questions, drawing on contemporary sources and providing a wealth of new insights.
Lieve lasten
Catalogus bij een expositie over de verschillende manieren waarop kinderen in de verschillende culturen worden gedragen, waarin ook de religieuze, sociaal-culturele, historische en medische aspecten worden belicht.
Lieve lasten
Catalogus bij een expositie waarin de verschillende manieren waarop kinderen in de verschillende culturen worden gedragen en waarin ook de religieuze, sociaal-culturele, historische en medische aspecten worden belicht.
Batik
Batik: Fabled Cloth of Java is richly illustrated with color plates of the finest antique and contemporary batik from thirty museums and private collections around the world. From the royal courts of Yogyakarta and Cirebon to the coastal towns of Pekalongan, Surabaya and Lasem, Inger McCabe Elliot takes the reader on a spellbinding tour of Java's north coast examining the customs, cultures and craftsmanship that distinguishes its magic cloth. Batik--Fabled Cloth of Java is a sumptuous book and now a classic, richly illustrated with color plates of the finest antique and contemporary batik batik from collections all over the world. It includes historical photographs, etchings, engravings, maps and photographs of modern Java. This new edition will be welcomed by designers, scholars and art lovers alike. it is the product of many years of collecting and on-the-scene exploration by a leading photojournalist, whose life was changed forever when she first laid eyes on the wondrous batik of Java's north coast.
