Batik : drawn in wax : 200 years of batik art from Indonesia in the Tropenmuseum collection / Itie van Hout (ed).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hout, I. C. van (Itie C.)

Tropenmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tropenmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands).

Batik--Indonesia--Exhibitions.

Batik.

Tropenmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)--Exhibitions.

Indonesia.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

208 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Royal Tropical Institute, [2001]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Of love and passion : biographical notes on the Batik collection in the Tropenmuseum / Itie van Hout

Reverse images, patterns of absence : batik and the representation of colonialism in the Netherlands / Susan Legêne and Berteke Waaldijk

The batik of Madura / Fiona Kerlogue

Flowers, fruits and fragrance : the batiks of Jambi / Fiona Kerlogue

The Chinese Batiks of Java / Geneviève Duggan

Javanese batik for European artists : experiments at the Koloniaal Laboratorium in Haarlem / Maria Wronska Friend

Islamic talismans : the calligraphy batiks / Fiona Kerlogue

Batik on batik : a Wayang story as a record of batik design / Itie van Hout

Batik, drawn in wax : the batik exhibition in the Tropenmuseum catalog / Itie van Hout.

Notes:

"Published in conjunction with the 2001 exhibition Drawn in Wax - 200 Years of Textile Art from Indonesia mounted in the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam"--P. 8.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-206).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9068321943

OCLC:

47279780