Author: KLEEN, TYRA:
Title: Tempeldanser och musikinstrument på Bali. Stockholm 1951.
Description: . Folio. Pp. 24. With 53 mounted plates, of which 21 colourful plates of dancers. Publisher's calf decorated in gilt, gilt dentelles, spine lightly faded. First edition, limited to 200 copies, of which this is no. 15. Tyra Kleen travelled to Java and Bali in 1919 where she studied the ritual court dances. This work is devoted to temple dancers in Bali. It describes the different kinds of dances (Legong, Tjalong Arong and Djoged), their history, costumes and music. The text is accompanied by plates depicting clothes, head garments, dance movements, and musicians. The illustrations show her unique artistic oeuvre with the ability to interweave dance, literature, activism and adventure. For her scientific ethnographic work on Bali Tyra was awarded the Johan August Wahlberg silver medal in 1938. A beautiful copy with dynamic, colourful art deco style images of dancers.

Keywords: Southeast Asia, indonesia, bali, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, dance, music, dances, temple dancers, costumes, music, art,


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