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9789814881845 Academic Inspection Copy

Patterned Splendour

Textiles Presented on Javanese Metal and Stone Sculptures, Eighth to Fifteenth Centuries
  • ISBN-13: 9789814881845
  • Publisher: ISEAS
    Imprint: ISEAS
  • By Lesley S. Pullen
  • Price: AUD $137.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 29/07/2021
  • Format: Paperback (276.00mm X 203.00mm) 328 pages Weight: 1054g
  • Categories: Asian history [HBJF]South East Asia [1FM]
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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.
Lesley S. Pullen is a Post-doctoral research associate in the School of Arts, SOAS University of London.
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