Tales From a Charmed Life: A Balinese Painter ReminiscesTales from a Charmed Life is the last in a trilogy of works by Hildred Geertz exploring the complexity of Balinese history, religion, and society. A landmark study by one of the most distinguished anthropologists of Indonesia, it centers around the stories and paintings of Ida Bagus Madé Togog (1913–1989), an artist and ritual specialist who played a significant role in the history of Balinese ethnography. In the 1930s, Togog was central to Mead and Bateson’s pioneering studies of "Balinese character" and came under the influence of expatriate artists Walter Spies and Rudolf Bonnet to emerge as a major representative of the Batuan style of painting. Togog’s art and anecdotal stories of his most memorable life experiences are here interwoven with Geertz’s illuminating commentary to construct an innovative framework for understanding Balinese culture. |
Contents
Introduction How This Book Came to Be I | 1 |
Chapter One Childhood Memories | 13 |
Chapter Two Wanderings Gambling Friendships | 45 |
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Tales From a Charmed Life: A Balinese Painter Reminisces Hildred Geertz,Ida Bagus Madé Togog No preview available - 2005 |