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On 22 June , Henk Schulte N ordholt was installed as the HAS Extraordinary Chair in Asian History at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Two excerpts from his oration, ‘A State o f Violence’, are presented w ith an interview bygd Marieke Brand.
CENTRAL ASIA Two giant Buddhas, hewn out o f rock in the Bamiyan valley, Afghanistan, are barely surviving the hostile onslaughts o f warfare and iconoclasm over past centuries to the present. Jet van Krieken describes their p lig h t w ith in the context o f the aims o f the Society for the Preservation o f Afghanistan’s C ultural Heritage. ^.aiiÉÉ
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A Curatorial Introduction
On Appropriation
The Spectrum of Appropriation Practices in Indonesian Contemporary Art
Rifky Effendy
Western Myth and the Spectres of History
The term ‘appropriation’ frequently comes up in talks on contemporary art and culture. It is true especially for discussions on the cultural development of postmodern art. The term is ever side by side with postmodernists’ jargons that include allegory, parody, eclectic, or bricolage. Appropriation always implies likeness or similarity between images.
Fine art with the tendency of appropriation has in fact been commonly practiced in the West since early 20th century. In the Wikipedia website as well as historian Robert S. Nelson’s, it is said that appropriating something involves the attempt to ‘take over’. In the Western art, the term appropriation often refers to the adoption of borrowed elements in a work of art. What to borrow include images or pictures, formations or styles known to art history or popul
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For centuries the Iban of West Kalimantan, Indonesia, have made seasonal use of the extensive lakes, today designated as Danau Sentarum Wildlife Reserve. They face challenges such as over-fishing, loss of access to lake resources, and conflict between ethnic grou