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Located just 8 degrees south of the equator and 2 miles east of Java is an Indonesian Island so celebrated in legend that the mention of its name conjures up images of mystery and excitement. That magical place is Bali, Indonesia. Multi-award-winning filmmaker Bob Bryan discovered the fantastic Wayang Kulit Shadow Puppet Theater. In this wonderful presentation, Bob shares the live shadow play (performed in its entirety on location in Bali) for all...
15) Primitive art
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"The most comprehensive and authoritative guide to the primitive art of Africa, the islands of the South Pacific, Australia, Southeast Asia and the Americas - superbly illustrated in colour and black-and-white, and including many objects never before reproduced."--Back cover.
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China has been the biggest art seller in the entire world since 2012. Yet they remain relatively unknown compared to these numbers. Who are these artists? What drives them and how do they circumvent censorship? Contemporary Chinese art took off spectacularly after Mao's death. Artists have revisited Western art and some have hijacked communist propaganda, supplementing it with a vitriolic critic of western consumerism currently sweeping the country....
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This special brings to light the priceless treasures of China's Imperial art collection, relating them to the political and cultural climate of their time. The Emperor's Eye is also the tale of a passionate collector, Emperor Qianlong, whose quest to create the greatest art collection in the world was actually a bid for his own immortality. Filmed at the National Palace Museum in Taiwan, the documentary shows the precious artwork that so few westerners...
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Hinduism has long accepted additions—to its pantheon, philosophies, devotional practices—but it has never discarded its ancient traditions. As a result, the religion reveals both dizzying diversity and strong strains of continuity. Joan Cummins, Curator of Asian Art at Brooklyn Museum, looks primarily at sculptures from the exhibition From India East, to seek out the commonalities between seemingly disparate images of Hindu and Buddhist deities....
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The book moves beyond the "West", that is to say Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean, to consider the art of Africa and the world to the east, to represent and place in historical context images of people of sub-Saharan African descent. The question remains: what does it mean for an artist of African descent to make an image of him or herself, or another person of African descent, as opposed to an image of a Black person created by an artist who...
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