Product Description: From about 1840 onwards, batiks found their way from what was called the Netherlands East Indies, then under Dutch colonial rule, to the Netherlands, where they were kept in private and public collections. Owing to Holland's great interest in Batik, Amsterdam's Tropenmuseum now owns a collection of over 3000 pieces...read more

Product Description: Rhythm is produced in "natural" as well as "cultural" ways. Natural rhythm is not controlled by man, no more than we can control the ebb and tide of the ocean, the rising and setting of the sun, the seasons of the year, or our own life cycle, heartbeat or breathing...read more

Product Description: This richly illustrated book on the impressive Georg Tillmann collection of Indonesian art, collected in the 1930s describes the objects, some quite old, from all over the archipelago: textiles, sculptures, weaponry, religious objects and other artifacts...read more