Patterned SplendourTextiles Presented on Javanese Metal and Stone Sculptures Eighth to the Fifteenth Century
A-IS council member, Lesley Pullen, has just published her new book. Below is a short abstract of the book. There survive a number of free-standing figurative sculptures produced in Java from the eighth to the fifteenth century whose dress displays detailed textile patterns. This surviving body of sculpture, carved in stone and cast in metal,…