Lesley S. Pullen, Patterned Splendour: Textiles Presented on Javanese Metal and Stone Sculptures Eighth to the Fifteenth Century. Singapore: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, 2021, xx + 308 pp., ISBN: 9789814881845 (paperback); 9789814881852 (pdf)
The monograph under review, based on a doctoral thesis submitted to SOAS in 2017, investigates the detailed patterns that appear on a body of free-standing figurative sculptures from Java and Sumatra dating from the eighth to the fifteenth century. It documents the “local response to successive arr...
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| Sumari: | The monograph under review, based on a doctoral thesis submitted to SOAS in 2017, investigates the detailed patterns that appear on a body of free-standing figurative sculptures from Java and Sumatra dating from the eighth to the fifteenth century. It documents the “local response to successive arrivals of textiles via trade” (p. 18), and seeks to address some unanswered questions, namely what the inspirations behind the textile patterns were, and where they originated from. The sculptural b... |
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