Author: PEPPELINKHUIZEN, C. - FRANS HAKS (ET.AL., CONTRIBUTORS).
Title: Celestial Art. Original edition.
Description: S.I. [Amsterdam], s.n., 1997. Folio, original cloth, title in bold black type on front boards and spine, dustjacket. 30pp. of preface, introduction and general descriptive text in english wit coloured illustrations in text and on some plates, numerous very fine coloured plates, illustrations on plates, also illustrating original chinese opera costumes from the 1930s, with 3 leaves being original chinese paper samplers, acknowledgements. A beautiful illustrated review which is a diverse response to a body of Chinese Art collected [by Leo Haks] in Singapore in the 1970s and '80s, a type of art that had been ignored as such. Plates illustrate fine chinese paper costumes. A very fine copy.

Keywords: singapore chinese art costume history culture heritage tradition china southeast asia