Jun 1978
VOLUME 9 - NUMBER 6
Chinese paper Gods
Bali’s Stairways to Heaven
Afghanistan: Nomad Country
Fiji’s Masi Culture
Dutch Attack on Macau
Cover. The goddess of mercy, or Kuan Yin (in Cantonese Kun Yam), woodblock-printed and then hand-colored at a pre-WW II printing center in northern China, Chinese folk religion paper gods can still be found, newly machine-printed, in Hongkong, Taiwan and the various overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia. But few can approximate the aesthetic qualities of the pre-war prints. This Kuan Yin is among the few old stencil-style design that approaches abstract expressionism or sometimes surrealism. Photo by Arthur Kan.
FEATURES
Manuel O. Benitez. Mayon’s Perfect Cone Endangered
George Caiger. The Bashas of Cobb&. Co.
Ashok Perakumbar. Cambodia: the Slow Road from Isolation
Afghanistan: Heartland of Antique Asia
Randall V. Biggers. The Kuchis, Afghanistan’s Nomads
Lola Stone. Bali: Island Stairway to Heaven
Alexandra Greeley. Paper Gods of Old China
Hilda Gill. Masi: Dress of the Fiji Gods
Dr. Colin Crisswell. A Midsummer Day Dutch Attack on Macau
Jenina Ruth Bas. The Personal Art of Charles Blackman
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Sharon Ziesnitz. Oriental Art in Germany’s Antique Fairs
Randall V. Biggers. Kabul: Still a Bazaar City
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: The Ganges in Myth and History
NEWS
Discoveries
VOLUME 9 - NUMBER 6
Chinese paper Gods
Bali’s Stairways to Heaven
Afghanistan: Nomad Country
Fiji’s Masi Culture
Dutch Attack on Macau
Cover. The goddess of mercy, or Kuan Yin (in Cantonese Kun Yam), woodblock-printed and then hand-colored at a pre-WW II printing center in northern China, Chinese folk religion paper gods can still be found, newly machine-printed, in Hongkong, Taiwan and the various overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia. But few can approximate the aesthetic qualities of the pre-war prints. This Kuan Yin is among the few old stencil-style design that approaches abstract expressionism or sometimes surrealism. Photo by Arthur Kan.
FEATURES
Manuel O. Benitez. Mayon’s Perfect Cone Endangered
George Caiger. The Bashas of Cobb&. Co.
Ashok Perakumbar. Cambodia: the Slow Road from Isolation
Afghanistan: Heartland of Antique Asia
Randall V. Biggers. The Kuchis, Afghanistan’s Nomads
Lola Stone. Bali: Island Stairway to Heaven
Alexandra Greeley. Paper Gods of Old China
Hilda Gill. Masi: Dress of the Fiji Gods
Dr. Colin Crisswell. A Midsummer Day Dutch Attack on Macau
Jenina Ruth Bas. The Personal Art of Charles Blackman
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Sharon Ziesnitz. Oriental Art in Germany’s Antique Fairs
Randall V. Biggers. Kabul: Still a Bazaar City
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: The Ganges in Myth and History
NEWS
Discoveries
VOLUME 9 - NUMBER 6
Chinese paper Gods
Bali’s Stairways to Heaven
Afghanistan: Nomad Country
Fiji’s Masi Culture
Dutch Attack on Macau
Cover. The goddess of mercy, or Kuan Yin (in Cantonese Kun Yam), woodblock-printed and then hand-colored at a pre-WW II printing center in northern China, Chinese folk religion paper gods can still be found, newly machine-printed, in Hongkong, Taiwan and the various overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia. But few can approximate the aesthetic qualities of the pre-war prints. This Kuan Yin is among the few old stencil-style design that approaches abstract expressionism or sometimes surrealism. Photo by Arthur Kan.
FEATURES
Manuel O. Benitez. Mayon’s Perfect Cone Endangered
George Caiger. The Bashas of Cobb&. Co.
Ashok Perakumbar. Cambodia: the Slow Road from Isolation
Afghanistan: Heartland of Antique Asia
Randall V. Biggers. The Kuchis, Afghanistan’s Nomads
Lola Stone. Bali: Island Stairway to Heaven
Alexandra Greeley. Paper Gods of Old China
Hilda Gill. Masi: Dress of the Fiji Gods
Dr. Colin Crisswell. A Midsummer Day Dutch Attack on Macau
Jenina Ruth Bas. The Personal Art of Charles Blackman
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Sharon Ziesnitz. Oriental Art in Germany’s Antique Fairs
Randall V. Biggers. Kabul: Still a Bazaar City
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: The Ganges in Myth and History
NEWS
Discoveries