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Book Old Javanese Gold

Download or read book Old Javanese Gold written by Yale University. Art Gallery and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While ancient Javanese bronze and ironwork have long elicited interest, there is a lesser-known yet equally fascinating aspect of the Indonesian island's history: gold artifacts, including jewelry, clothing accessories, statues, coins, and containers. Not only do these objects display exceptional craftsmanship, they also provide a significant source of information on Javanese society, culture, religion, economy, technology, and art from the 1st century BCE to 1500. This revised and expanded edition of the 1990 publication Old Javanese Gold celebrates Valerie and Hunter Thompson's 2007 gift of Javanese gold objects to the Yale University Art Gallery and the subsequent founding of the Department of Indo-Pacific Art. Along with entirely new photography and a fresh design, the book's essays have been updated to incorporate recent discoveries--including the Wonoboyo hoard, one of the most important gold hoards ever excavated in Southeast Asia. Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery Exhibition Schedule: Yale University Art Gallery (03/25/11-08/14/11)

Book Old Javanese Gold  4th 15th Century

Download or read book Old Javanese Gold 4th 15th Century written by Wilhelmina H. Kal and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Old Javanese Gold

Download or read book Old Javanese Gold written by John N. Miksic and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Small Finds

Download or read book Small Finds written by John N. Miksic and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On Thrones of Gold

    Book Details:
  • Author : James R. Brandon
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 1993-07-01
  • ISBN : 9780824814250
  • Pages : 438 pages

Download or read book On Thrones of Gold written by James R. Brandon and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¿Perhaps the best English-language puppetry book in years.¿ ¿Library Journal ¿Accessible and unexpectedly involving ... an essential book for anyone seriously interested in wayang.¿ ¿

Book Ancient Indonesian Gold of the Central and Eastern Javanese Periods  750   1550  A Selection

Download or read book Ancient Indonesian Gold of the Central and Eastern Javanese Periods 750 1550 A Selection written by Jaap Polak and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Indonesian Gold' is the first publication of the Documentation Centre for Ancient Indonesian Art in Amsterdam. It examines Indonesian gold, sculptures, objects and jewellery, affording fresh insights into the history, techniques and use of the special types of jewellery made by Javanese goldsmiths. The objects have been studied closely and their descriptions sometimes differ from that in earlier publications. This was done in an attempt to give the reader new information about ancient Javanese gold. Most of the 115 selected items are published here for the first time and provide a good introduction to the fascinating goldsmith art of Central- and East Java from circa 750 to 1550. Several objects exhibit the foreign influences that helped shape Javanese art, as illustrated by early photographs. This begins with the impact of Hinduism from India, somewhat later that of Buddhism, and subsequently of Islamic culture. The illustrations in this publication include high-quality photographs of the works of art as well as old photographs and details of archaeological sites throughout Java. In this way, art lovers are able to better understand Indonesian culture as well as the virtuosity of Javanese goldsmiths. Indonesia's rise to greatness was due to its ability to time and again absorb new elements from foreign cultures and incorporate them into its own intrinsic civilisation.

Book Indonesian Gold

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maud Girard-Geslan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Indonesian Gold written by Maud Girard-Geslan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gold in Early Southeast Asia

Download or read book Gold in Early Southeast Asia written by Ruth Barnes and published by Far Eastern Publications. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With the publication of John Miksic's book Old Javanese Gold twenty-five years ago, Southeast Asian gold became a new field of study. The Hunter and Valerie Thompson collection that was its focus is now at the Yale University Art Gallery, where it is one of the foundations of the recently established Department of Indo-Pacific Art. In 2011 the Gallery displayed key items of the collection and hosted an international symposium to celebrate the donation. This volume is the outcome of that occasion. The contributions represent a range of disciplines, from archaeology to art history and epigraphy. New approaches to analysis are offered and enrich our understanding of the role precious metal once held in Southeast Asian cultures. Recently discovered archaeological sites are discussed. Several of the authors also address the problems of looting and forgery when objects become desirable collectors' items. The collection of essays marks a new stage in research on precious metals in Southeast Asia."--Publisher's website.

Book Patterned Splendour

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  • Author : Lesley Pullen
  • Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
  • Release : 2021-03-02
  • ISBN : 9814881856
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Patterned Splendour written by Lesley Pullen and published by ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Gold Jewellery of the Indonesian Archipelago

Download or read book Gold Jewellery of the Indonesian Archipelago written by Anne Richter and published by Editions Didier Millet. This book was released on 2012 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold Jewellery of the Indonesian Archipelago features more than 500 stunning, never-before published examples of tribal, ethnic, ancient and courtly body ornaments from Indonesia's outer islands - Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, the Lesser Sunda Islands and Maluku. Written by Anne Richter, author of Arts and Crafts of Indonesia and Jewelry of Southeast Asia, and Bruce Carpenter, acknowledged expert with more than 20 years of experience in the field of Indonesian art, history and culture, and more than 16 books to his name, this volume provides a compelling introduction to the little-known visual power and beauty of Indonesian jewellery. Illustrated with archival artwork and maps as well as photos of carefully selected rare ornamental adornments, this book also traces the historical origins of Indonesia's remarkably diverse culture and peoples.

Book Ancient Indonesian Bronzes

Download or read book Ancient Indonesian Bronzes written by Pauline Lunsingh Scheurleer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alcohol in Early Java

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  • Author : Jiří Jákl
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2021-10-25
  • ISBN : 9004417036
  • Pages : 406 pages

Download or read book Alcohol in Early Java written by Jiří Jákl and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Alcohol in Early Java: Its Social and Cultural Significance, Jiří Jákl offers an account of the history of alcohol in pre-Islamic Java (9-15th C.E.).

Book Shan Manuscripts

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  • Author : B. J. Terwiel
  • Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 3515079734
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Shan Manuscripts written by B. J. Terwiel and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 2003 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shan people can be found in a belt stretching from Assam (Northeastern India) over Myanmar (Burma) to the Chinese province Yunnan. In this volume Shan manuscripts from collections in Berlin, Munich and Hamburg are described. In this catalogue a total of 335 manuscripts and inscribed pieces of cloth are introduced. For each document there is mentioned its title, the date, the author, its appearance as well as a summary of the contents. In the introduction many topics are raised, such as a short history of the Shan, the Shan script, famous authors, material writing culture, a typology of written documents, and the principles of prosody. "In compiling this catalogue of Shan manuscript, Terwiel and Chaichuen have done valuable work which will be appreciated by everyone who is doing research on Shan or Tai culture or cultural history and related themes by using original indigenous sources. [�] The completion of this work marks a new milestone in Shan studies and Tai studies as a whole." Tai culture.

Book The Cambridge Global History of Fashion  Volume 1

Download or read book The Cambridge Global History of Fashion Volume 1 written by Christopher Breward and published by Cambridge History of Fashion. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how the long history of fashion from antiquity to c. 1800 created global networks and animated world communities.

Book Ancient Silk Trade Routes  Selected Works From Symposium On Cross Cultural Exchanges And Their Legacies In Asia

Download or read book Ancient Silk Trade Routes Selected Works From Symposium On Cross Cultural Exchanges And Their Legacies In Asia written by Qin Dashu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As key nodes that connected ancient silk routes traversing China, Japan and India, trading hubs, towns and cities in Java and Sumatra and other places in Asia were key destination points for merchants, monks and other itinerants plying these routes.Recent archaeological excavations in countries bordering the South China Sea and around the Indian Ocean unveiled remarkable similarities in artifacts recovered both on land and from the sea. The similarities underlined the many facets of regional exchanges and cross-cultural influences among people and places in these networks. Some of the findings indicate a distinct Chinese presence in the commercial, social and religious activities of these early Asian trading posts.This book collects papers from the symposium on Ancient Silk Trade Routes — Cross Cultural Exchanges and Their Legacies in Asia. It explores several threads arising from this regional exchange of goods and ideas, in particular, the cross-cultural dimensions of the exchanges in the areas of textile trade, ceramic routes, trading hubs, arts and artifacts and Buddhism.

Book Indonesian Manuscripts in Great Britain

Download or read book Indonesian Manuscripts in Great Britain written by M. C. Ricklefs and published by Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia. This book was released on 2014 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tidak tersedia apa pun

Book Java Adventure Guide

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  • Author : Periplus Editors,
  • Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
  • Release : 2014-04-15
  • ISBN : 1462909272
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book Java Adventure Guide written by Periplus Editors, and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate adventure guide This is the most comprehensive guide to Java ever produced. Hundreds of pages of travel tips and dozens of lively articles on history, nature, and the arts, take you right under the surface of Javanese life, with visits to lots of unique places. Under the volcano Java’s 121 active volcanoes rumble and roar above one of the world’s most dramatic tropical landscapes. Whether you come here to trek the volcanoes or to visit the island’s impressive ancient monuments, Java provides the adventure of a lifetime. The nitty gritty, from A to Z Detailed maps of all areas of interest are included along with personal recommendations from our expert authors on how to get around, where to stay and eat, and how to get the best value for your money.