Lempad of Bali
John Darling, Bruce Carpenter, Hedi Hinzler, Kaja McGowan, Adrian Vickers, Soemantri Widagdo
Collection : Asia and Oceania > Indonesia
ISBN : 978-9-81438-597-8
- Ouvrage indisponible
- A luxurious large-format edition that is in full colour and clothbound.
- The first publication to bring together an extensive collection of Lempad's drawings from many different collections all over the world.
- Essays and captions written by respected academics and experts in the field of Balinese art history.
John Darling
An Australian-born filmmaker, academic and poet, John Darling studied history at both Canberra and Oxford. In 1969 he arrived in Bali as a young traveller. The island became his home for the next twenty years. John’s film career began serendipitously when he and filmmaker, Lorne Blair, decided to film the cremation of Lempad. The internationally acclaimed result, Lempad of Bali (1978), is a classic. Darling would go on to produce and direct eight more documentary films in Indonesia. In the 1990s Darling was a lecturer in Media Studies at Murdoch University, Perth and later a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National and Monash universities. He died in Perth in 2011. A year later the John Darling Fellowship supporting Indonesian documentary filmmakers was established. Earlier this year Darling’s memoirs of Lempad and his film Lempad of Bali were released on www.lempad.net where they can be downloaded for free.
Hedi Hinzler
Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Leiden University, Hedi Hinzler began her career studying the archaeology and ancient history of Southeast Asia with Sanskrit, Old Javanese and Cultural Anthropology as secondary subjects at the University of Leiden. She also took private lessons from senior Balinese scholar, Christiaan Hooykaas. Hinzler taught archaeology, ancient history, epigraphy, performing arts and contemporary art of Southeast Asia at Leiden University until 2007. Concentrating on Bali, she has conducted fieldwork in various parts of South and Southeast Asia since 1972. Author and co-author of scores of books and scholarly articles on Southeast Asian, Indonesian and Balinese studies she is an authority on a number of diverse subjects. She is currently researching wayang puppet theatre and the diets of ancient and modern Balinese and Javanese.
Kaja McGowan
Kaja McGowan is associate professor of the History of Art, Archaeology and Visual Studies at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, home to one of the oldest and most prestigious Southeast Asian Study Programs in the United States. She is currently the Director of the Southeast Asia Program. She studied Balinese dance and performance as an undergraduate and is co-author of Ida Bagus Made: The Art of Devotion, the book published for the first of the Masters of the Pita Maha exhibitions at Museum Puri Lukisan. She is currently working with materials in the Claire Holt Collection at Cornell, and is planning an edited volume and conference in 2016–2017 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the life and work of this remarkable woman, culminating in her magnum opus, Art in Indonesia: Continuities and Change (1967).