Patterned Splendour: Textiles Presented on Javanese Metal and Stone Sculptures, Eighth to Fifteenth Centuries - Softcover

Lesley S. Pullen (author)

 
9789814881845: Patterned Splendour: Textiles Presented on Javanese Metal and Stone Sculptures, Eighth to Fifteenth Centuries
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9814881848 ISBN 13: 9789814881845
Publisher: ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, 2021

Synopsis

There exist numerous free-standing figurative sculptures produced in Java between the eighth and fifteenth centuries whose dress displays detailed textile patterns. This surviving body of sculpture, carved in stone and cast in metal, varying in both size and condition, remain 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. Hence this publication will contribute to our knowledge of the textiles in circulation at that time by including the first comprehensive record of this body of sculpture, together with their textile patterns classified into a typology of styles within each chapter.

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About the Author

Lesley S. Pullen is a Post-doctoral research associate in the School of Arts, SOAS University of London.

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Publisher
ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9814881848
ISBN 13 
9789814881845
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
328