Buku ini dapat dipelajari dalam waktu 7 hari. Dilengkapi contoh dan foto yang menarik dari sembilan negara koleksi Herry Tjiang (Turki, Hongkong, Korea, China, Singapura, Macau, Vietnam, Kamboja, dan Indonesia). Selain mendapatkan pelajaran fotografi, mata anda akan dimanjakan dengan foto-foto menarik dari dalam dan luar negeri. Ditulis oleh fotografer profesional yang sudah 15 tahun berkecimp…
Tidak jauh berbeda dengan edisi sebelumnya, Bothekan Karawitan 2 ini juga merupakan kumpulan cerita pengalaman penulis selama lebih dari 50 tahun sejak mulai belajar menabuh gamelan, kemudian ikut menabuh, membicarakan, dan membuat gendhing atau komposisi baru. Tulisan ini sekedar perwujudan dari usaha mengurangi rasa bersalah penulis dan dosa terhadapk karawitan, dunia yang menghidupinya. Dala…
Sampai beberapa waktu yang lalu, di rumah-rumah keluarga Jawa, hampir semua keluarga memiliki benda yang berfungsi sebagai wadah, berupa rangkaian kotak-kotak kecil yang digunakan untuk menyimpan rempah-rempah, tumbuhan, biji-bijian, bunga, dedaunan kering. Produk tumbuhan yang disebut empon-empon itu, sewaktu waktu dapat diramu dan digunakan untuk menyembuhkan berbagai macam penyakit. Sesuai n…
To undertake a scholarly project on the Wonderful World of Disney, in particular one focused on the historical, cultural and artistic significance of its celebrated cel-animated feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, 1937), is an endeavour that often feels like jumping headlong ‘into burning coals’. Over eighty years after its ini…
Imagine studying a building not by walking its hallways or perusing its blueprints, but by examining each of its bricks: the pockmarks produced by air bubbles in the clay, the whorls of reds and browns, the trowel’s impressions in the mortar. Imagine evaluating a mosaic not for the bigger picture but for the glint of indi-vidual tesserae. Or imagine not watching a film but looki…
Every culture and society has read stories in the night sky. From the careful attention of astronomers across all times and all parts of the world to the search for alien life, the stories found in the shapes of constellations to the expansive imaginings of science fiction, there has always been life up there, at the very least, for our imaginations. Mythologies of Outer Space brings together a…
The city is the womb of our history and our civilisation. It is the largest work of art ever created by humanity. The city is «the supremely human achievement» (Lévi-Strauss, 1973: 124) and the driving force of the development of thought, progress and social accomplishments. Over time it has become the main place of production, exchange and the consump-tion of goods; …
This book is about f ilms and f ilmmakers committed to reality. For them, the world is not a mere construct or discourse, but made of people, animals, plants and objects that physically exist, thrive, suffer and die. They feel part of, and responsible for, this material world and want to change it for the better. ‘Realism’, this book argues, is what def ines these f ilms’ mode of producti…
For some time now, in newspapers and books, a series of words keep ap-pearing that begin with the pref ix “post-.” As for these new words, the key to understanding seems to be a semantics of ambiguity. Post does not indicate something absolutely different but something in-between: postcapital-ism would be a new phase of capitalism; postmodernism, a new f igure of modernism; and post-history…
igitalisation and virtual worlds are increasingly permeating the cultural sector and the creative industries. When it is difficult for cultural offerings to find their audience, they can or must actively reach out to their audience. This also applies to museums, which can find and retain audiences in different ways and with different formats. Even a virtual museum is fundamentally a museum. …