An artist in Java and other islands of Indonesia

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An artist in Java and other islands of Indonesia

by Jan Poortenaar ; translated from the Dutch by Horace Shipp in collaboration with the author ; with a forward by Frank Brangwyn

(Oxford paperbacks)

New York : Oxford University Press, 1989

Other Title

Een Kunstreis in de Tropen

An artist in the tropics

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Originally published in English as "An artist in the tropics", London : Sampson Low, Marston, 1928

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Full of insights into everyday life and Dutch colonial society in the 1920s, this book takes the reader on a tour of the islands of Java, Madura, Bali, Sulawesi, Kalimantan, and Sumatra, then collectively known as the Dutch East Indies.

Table of Contents

  • Comforters and guides
  • Travelling companions
  • Port Said
  • A cyclone
  • Penang
  • Travelling in the land of the Kompenie
  • Mount Salak in the rain
  • A holy grave near Cheribon
  • In the Preanger Regencies, Java
  • The temple Borobudur
  • Borobudur and Tjandi Pawon
  • Court dancers at Djocjakarta
  • Visitors' day at the palace, Djocjakarta
  • The water castle, Djocjakarta
  • The living ornament
  • Painting in the Kraton, Djocjakarta
  • The Susuhunan receives
  • The artist in the Kraton, Solo
  • A Wayang performance in the Mangkoonegaran
  • Wayang players
  • Poodyon
  • Tosari and Mount Bromo
  • Barang Lama
  • Madura Island
  • Concert giving
  • To Bali
  • Bali
  • Makassar
  • Banyermasin
  • Balikpapan: oil town
  • Palembang, South Sumatra
  • Across South Sumatra
  • In central Sumatra
  • A Chinese festival
  • Medan and the Batak lands
  • Piso piso
  • Singapore
  • Malta.

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