Focusing primarily on the Classical Period (800?1500 CE), ancient Southeast Asian culture is viewed through the lens of ceramic production and trade, influenced but not completely overshadowed by its powerful neighbour, China.
Contemporary Indonesian Art is a comprehensive introduction to the country’s key artists, curators, institutions, and collectors. It demonstrates how early artists broke from colonial and post-colonial power structures and shows how today’s artists grapple with issues of identity, globalization, and nation-building in Indonesia. The survey crosses ethnic, cultural, and religious boundaries,…
Eko Nugroho (b. 1977, Yogyakarta) is one of Indonesia's hottest rising stars. Working across media, form and presentation, Eko's work often forces an interface between high art and street and popular culture. In the span of ten years, Eko's multi-disciplinary comic-inspired work has traversed the local Indonesian and international art stage, moving in and out of gallery and museum interiors and…
The great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/31-1569) was an astoundingly inventive painter and draftsman, who made his art historical mark with beautiful, evocative landscapes as well as religious subjects, both notable for their vernacular language and attention to everyday, contemporary life. Immersing himself in rural or small-town communities, Bruegel is particularly nota…
As cryptic as they are compelling, the masterpieces of Hieronymus Bosch (1450–1516) remain some of the most enduring enigmas of the art world. Their intricate, allegorical, and often startling content has captivated not only art historians, but also fashion designers, rock stars, writers, and punk rockers, as well as countless modern and contemporary artist successors. Although rooted in t…
Diego Rivera (1886–1957) is a loud presence on the art historical stage. With devout political principles and a turbulent romantic history, he was at once husband and paladin of Frida Kahlo, advocate and adversary of Stalin’s Soviet Union, and liberator and traitor of Leon Trotsky. Vibrant, graphic, and often monumental, Rivera’s paintings carry the same live political and passionate c…