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Crescent moon : Islamic art & civilisation in Southeast Asia = Bulan sabit : seni dan peradaban Islam di Asia Tenggara / James Bennett.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Indonesian, Malay Publication details: Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia ; Canberra : National Gallery of Australia ; Seattle, WA : Distributed in the United States of America by University of Washington Press, c2005.Description: 303 p. : col. ill. ; 33 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0730830306
  • 9780730830306
Other title:
  • Bulan sabit : seni dan peradaban Islam di Asia Tenggarw
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 23 704.94897 BEN 13175
LOC classification:
  • N7311 .B46 2005
Summary: Crescent Moon introduces the beauty and complexity of Southeast Asian Islamic art and cuture. This large book features major works of art from Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore, as well as extraordinary works from the National Gallery of Australia. The book reveals the sophistication and splendor of the Islamic courts in the archipelago--royal heirlooms recalling a glorious past enriched by the wealth of spice trade and lavish ceremonies of the life cyce, such as circumcisions, weddings, and funerals, as testimonies of faith and power. The revelation of new art forms in gold, silk, lacquer, porcelain, and stone illustrate the transformations of idigenous motifs and techniques and unique developments in the arts of Islamic Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, a s well as the Muslim communities of Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
Item type: Book
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Catalog of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Nov. 10, 2005-Jan. 29, 2006, and at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Feb. 23-May 28, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-302).

Crescent Moon introduces the beauty and complexity of Southeast Asian Islamic art and cuture. This large book features major works of art from Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore, as well as extraordinary works from the National Gallery of Australia. The book reveals the sophistication and splendor of the Islamic courts in the archipelago--royal heirlooms recalling a glorious past enriched by the wealth of spice trade and lavish ceremonies of the life cyce, such as circumcisions, weddings, and funerals, as testimonies of faith and power. The revelation of new art forms in gold, silk, lacquer, porcelain, and stone illustrate the transformations of idigenous motifs and techniques and unique developments in the arts of Islamic Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, a s well as the Muslim communities of Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

In English; text also translated partly into Indonesian and partly into Malay.

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