Java Chintz Exhibition Art The chapters

The chapters

Jeanette ten Kate

Jasper and Mas Pirngadie at the beginning of the twentieth century

Indonesian textiles is not only delicate batik and silk ikat but also textile with dinamic motifs woven by cotton threads from east island such as Sumba island

Colonial Spectacles shows that relations between East and West (or the West and its colonies) involved a continuous reconceptualisation of both the 'other' and the 'self'

Java Chintz Exhibition Art The chaptersThis publication is the catalogue to the exhibition "Java Chintz" shown at Kobe City Museum in 1988. This Special Exhibition, putting its focus on the art of Javanese Batik which has characteristically been developed in Java, Indonesia, intends to rediscover the traditional beauty of the Batik and, further, to explore part of the multifaceted culture of the country of Indonesia. The brilliant colors and unique patterns with full of exoticism on the