Post #299433 by aquarj on Sun, Apr 15, 2007 4:57 PM

The book is outstanding; admittedly I've hardly read any of the text, but the images are wonderful. It roughly breaks into 4 parts - a historical account peppered with photos and illustrations from the trips Miguel Covarrubias took to Bali with his wife Rose in the 30s, an artistic discussion of his Balinese art, a rich section of 40+ pages of full color images of his sketches and paintings from Bali, and then a set of appendices including more sketches, plus field notes and also some photos that Rose took on the trips. The images show the joy he took in both portraiture and caricature. I really like his work, not only in this book but others, so I have some scans...

"The Ardja, Romantic Balinese Opera"

"The Beach in Sanur"

"Kneeling Legong Dancer with Headdress"

"Bathing in the River"

These last two are from a different book...

This is one of the illustrations that bigbro referred to earlier, from Melville's "Typee", 1935.

At his easel, photo taken by Nickolas Muray.

-Randy