Images of power : Balinese paintings made for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead
Between 1936 and 1938 Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead collected more than 1,200 paintings and sketches made by Balinese peasants. The products of a new genre of painting introduced and encouraged by two European artists in 1931, the paintings draw their major themes from Balinese culture but use Western materials and forms. Strikingly different from both traditional Balinese art forms and paintings made in Bali today, these unusual pen-and-ink pictures reveal much about Bali that has been unknown to Westerners. [publisher]
Exhibition catalogs
ix, 135 pages : illustrations, color map ; 31 cm
9780824816469, 9780824816797, 0824816463, 082481679X
30355731
Ch. 1. Inventing an Art
Both Balinese and Western
Ch. 2. The Everyday World of (Mere) Appearances
Ch. 3. The Magical Story World: A Portfolio of Storytelling Pictures
Ch. 4. The Real World of Dangerous Powers
Ch. 5. Masters of Sakti Powers
Ch. 6. Crossing Cultures
Appendix: Painters' Profiles and Selected Works
Published on the occasion of a touring exhibition held in New York, Australia, and elsewhere