Author: TAYLOR, PAUL MICHAEL (EDITOR),
Title: Fragile Traditions; Indonesian Art in Jeopardy. [First edition].
Description: Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1994. Original cloth, gilded title on spine, dustjacket. (ix), 171pp. Many black/white illustrations in text and full page, with images of traditional Indonesian Weavings (Ikat) and primitive looms, wooden ancestor figures, carved staffs of office, braiding and plaiting, etc., notes and references at end of each contribution, list of contributors, index, endpaper maps, table of contents. Compilation of 9, incl. introduction, 9 contributions surveying the decline of traditional Indonesian arts and crafts, e.g. adaptation of indigenous forms to western taste The Case of Nias, ancestral statuary of Tanah Toraja, effects of International Art Collection, etc., by Jean-Paul Barbier, Ruth Barnes, Eric Crystal, Shelly Errington, Jerome Feldman, Michael Heppel (et.al.). Very fine copy.

Keywords: tradition decline form adaptation art craft indonesia southeast asia ancestors ancestral statuary toraja borneo celebest java ikat looms weaving survey decline