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Reach Of The Roach God: Art Notes II
In my last post, I wrote about my grounded approaches with A Thousand Thousand Islands illustrations. Basically: Focusing on trivial objects Logical extensions of Southeast
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Reach Of The Roach God: Art Notes I
Working on Reach Of The Roach God has actually been quite challenging for me. Having drawn A Thousand Thousand Islands for over four years, I’ve
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Carl Bock: Temples and Elephants
Below, a series of images from Carl Bock’s Temples and Elephants: The Narrative of a Journey of Exploration Through Upper Siam and Lao (1884). The
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The Decorated Boats of Kelantan
Whenever I visit Mun Kao I raid his library; this time I stole “The Decorated Boats Of Kelantan”, by Paul J Coatalen (Universiti Sains Malaysia,1982). It’s a survey
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Huang Qing Zhi Gong Tu 皇清职贡图
Huang Qing Zhi Gong Tu or Qing Imperial Illustrations of Tributary Peoples is a 18th century work by the Qing Dynasty, it is a collection
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Travel Sketches
Reiseskizzen google-translates to Travel Sketches. Singapore, Malacca, Java: Reiseskizzen was published in 1866 and written by Andreas Fedor Jagor, a German ethnologist, naturalist and explorer.
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David Bade’s Of Palm Wine, Women and War
In 1293, a year before the end of his reign, the Great Khan Khubilai, founder of the Yuan Dynasty, dispatched an army to Java. David
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Betel Chewing and a Dilemma of Depiction
In my new zine of collected drawings, there are a couple of these trivia pages briefly talking about practises/objects of SEA that I find interesting.
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Grande tenue de la cour d’Annam by Nguyen Van Nhan (1902)
“Official Dress of the Court of Annam”, a series of 54 paintings by the court painter of the last Nguyen Dynasty. Painted during a period