Patterned Splendour: Textiles Presented on Javanese Metal and Stone Sculptures; Eighth to Fifteenth Century
Lesley Pullen, author
Date of publication:
2021
Publisher:
ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
Number of pages:
308
Code:
BM598
Soft Cover
ISBN: 9789814881845
Reviews
"A well-researched book, and indeed a milestone in the study of Javanese and Sumatran pre-Islamic dress. The book will be of use to textile scholars, art historians, and to everyone interested in the rich heritage of Southeast Asian cultures."
Dr. James Bennett,Textiles Asia, September 2022
"Lesley Pullen's remarkable Patterned Splendour is a landmark contribution to deepening our appreciation of the rich heritage of early Javanese textile art documented in Hindu and Buddhist sculptures from the 8th to 15th century. The study is a wide-ranging survey of the varieties of designs depicted on the garments worn by gods, goddesses and deified royalty in religious images. The significance of Pullen's research is underscored by the recognition that no other visual media - whether paintings or illuminated manuscripts - illustrating textile patterns survive from the period."
Book Highlight from Art of the Ancestors May 2021
About the publication
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.
Contents
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Patterned Splendour: Textiles Presented on Javanese Metal and Stone Sculptures; Eighth to Fifteenth Century
[Whole Publication, ISBN: 9789814881852], by Lesley Pullen, author -
Preliminary pages
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1. Background
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2. Javanese Textile Traditions
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3. Central and Early East Java: Metal and Stone Sculpture from the Eighth to the Eleventh Century
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4. Kediri and Singhasri: Stone Sculpture from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century
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5. Majapahit: Stone Sculpture from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century
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6. Conclusion
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Epilogue
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Appendices
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Glossary and Extended Glossary of Textile Terms
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Bibliography
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Index
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About the Author and Illustrator
