couverture de Lempad of Bali
277 x 360 mm — 424 pages — 150
ISBN : 978-9-81438-597-8
  • 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.
Lempad of Bali is being produced by the Museum Puri Lukisan in Ubud in conjunction with a major retrospective exhibition of the renowned Balinese artist I Gusti Nyoman Lempad that will be held in the museum from September 20 to October 20, 2014. With some 600 illustrations, the book will function as a catalogue raisonneé dedicated to the life and and art of this seminal artist, who has been rightly called the father of the Balinese Pita Maha group of artists. The texts will be authored by a team of five respected experts including John Darling, the director of the acclaimed film on Lempad of the same name, Hedi Hinzler, senior professor and Bali expert at Leiden University, Kaja McGowan, the curator of the Claire Holt collection and professor at Cornell University, Adrian Vickers, professor at Sydney University, Soemantri Widagdo, curator of the Museum Puri Lukisan, and Bruce W. Carpenter, Indonesian art expert.
Other institutions participating in the book include the Library of Congress, the American Museum of Natural History, the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Leiden University, Leiden Ethnographic Museum, Delft Nusantara Museum, Vienna Ethnographic Museum, Cornell University, the Gallery of New South Wales and Sydney University.

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.

Bruce Carpenter

A student of art history and fluent in four languages, Carpenter has been a resident of Bali since the early 1970s when he arrived from Europe as an aspiring young artist. Inspired by Indonesian and Balinese art, he has authored and co-authored more than twenty books and scores of articles on the archipelago’s art, history and culture including W.O.J. Nieuwenkamp: The First European Artist in BaliBatak SculptureNias SculptureGold Jewellery of the Indonesian Archipelago; and Lempad of Bali. In 1996 he founded and curated the non-profit Ganesha Gallery at the Four Seasons Resort in Jimbaran. Dedicated to young Indonesian and Balinese artists it would mount more than 200 exhibitions in close to twenty years. He has collaborated with numerous noted scholars over the years.  He is currently working on two book projects on Indonesian tribal art.

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). 

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