Five Centuries of Indonesian Textiles: The Mary Hunt Kahlenberg Collection (2010)
Including many rare and antique examples, this luxurious volume introduces readers to the intoxicating and complex beauty of Indonesian cloth.
Since the 1970s Mary Hunt Kahlenberg has been building her collection of exquisite ceremonial garments and sacred textiles from throughout Indonesia’s chain of tropical islands. Dating from the past five centuries and brought together here for the first time in book form, these woven and batiked hangings, ceremonial mats, jackets, shawls, and head cloths form a stunning array that will draw the attention of anyone with a love of art, fine craftsmanship, and design. Large, elegantly presented photographs show the textiles in incredible closeup detail and full expanse, making it possible to appreciate their technical brilliance and rich colors as well as the dazzling assortment of intricate patterns and motifs. Including essays by leading anthropologists and art historians, this book brings readers into a world ruled by the belief that weavings communicate with and transform those who come into contact with them.
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Munich ; New York : Delmonico Books/Prestel, 2010.
ISBN: 9783791350714 3791350714
OCLC Number: 630456864
Description: 399 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 32 cm
Table of contents
Table of contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
9
CLOSE OBSERVATIONS AND PRICELESS MEMORIES
Mary Hunt Kahlenberg
10
INTRODUCTION
THE STUDY OF INDONESIAN TEXTILES:
PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
Ruth Barnes
26
EARLY INDONESIAN TEXTILES:
SCIENTIFIC DATING IN A WIDER CONTEXT
Ruth Barnes
34
Introduction to Plates
46
Sumatra
48
UPLAND TRIBE, COASTAL VILLAGE,
AND INLAND COURT:
REVISED PARAMETERS FOR BATIK RESEARCH
Rens Meringà
120
Java
132
CLOTHS FOR THE ANCESTORS:
ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TECHNIQUE
AND MEANING OF BALINESE RITUAL TEXTILES
Marie-Louise Nahholz-Kartaschoff
186
Bali
198
TRIANGLE AND TREE:
AUSTRONESIAN THEMES
IN THE DESIGN INTERPRETATION
OF INDONESIAN TEXTILES
Traude Gavin
226
Borneo
Sulawesi
250
TEXTILES AND IDENTITY IN EASTERN INDONESIA
Roy W. Hamilton
300
Nusa Tenggara
314
CONNECTIONS AND DISTINCTIONS:
TEXTILES IN MALUKU TENGGARA
Toos van Dijk
350
Maluku
362
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
378
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES
386
EXHIBITION AND
PUBLICATION HISTORY
388
INDEX
390
About the author
About the author
Mary Hunt Kahlenberg, one of the major authorities in the U.S. in the field of historic textiles, formerly served as Curator of Textiles and Costumes at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) for a decade, where she built its Indonesian and Pre-Columbian collections. Also a former curator at the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C., she studied textile design at the Institute of Chicago, and in Vienna and Berlin. Currently a Research Associate with the Museum of New Mexico, she is co-curator for the Neutrogena Wing, opened August 1998. She authored the books “Textile Tradition of Indonesia”, “Walk in Beauty: The Navajo and Their Blankets”, and most recently from Abrams, “The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Textiles and objects from the Cotsen collection and Neutrogena Collections.”
