Recognized worldwide for its excellance and craftsmanship

6 masks with religious, folk and theatrical origins: Wayang Golek, Wayang Topeng, and Ragil Kunig masks of Java, 3 more.

A lively introduction to an internationally famed still living performance art placed within its religious, cultural, historical. Over one thousand images historical, contemporary, including paintings, illustrations, maps and documents. The first book to illustrate the breadth, width and depth of centuries of Balinese mask making. The standard work on the subject

For at least 20,000 years, masking has been a mark of cultural evolution and an indication of magical-religious sophistication in society. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the mask as a powerful cultural phenomenon--a means by which human groupings attempted to communicate their dignity and sense of purpose, as well as establish a continuum between the natural and supernatural worlds. It addresses the distinctive environments within which masks flourished, and analyzes the mask as a manifestation of art, ethnology and anthropology.