Artists

The information on this database has been assembled from a number of key sources, notably the field notes of Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead (including interviews with artists from Batuan by their assistant, Made Kaler) at the Library of Congress, Hildred Geertz's books Images of Power, Tales from a Charmed Life and Storytelling in Bali, the study of Batuan in the 1980s by Klaus Höhn (the English version of which is Reflections of Faith), and the book Bali Bravo, edited by Agus Dermawan T. For more sources, see Balinese Art: Paintings and Drawings of Bali by Adrian Vickers.

Spellings have been modernised for the purposes of standardisation, so that the colonial-era ‘oe’ has been changed to ‘u’; and the pre-1972 spellings have all been changed (‘dj’ is now ‘j’, ‘j’ is now ‘y’, and ‘tj’ is now ‘c’). Where possible the standard forms of spelling for Balinese words have been used (not adding the silent ‘e’ between consonants, eg ‘Sobrat’ rather than ‘Soberat’, and using the Balinese ‘ma-‘ instead of Malay/Indonesian ‘me-’ etc for verbal forms).

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