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This book gives a colourful picture of that struggle. Leading artists, curators and historians from Indonesia and the Netherlands have pored over a series of questions posed by the history of art in the Dutch East Indies/Indonesia. What was and still is Dutch about Indonesian art? What relationship does it have with Western techniques and views on art? How does contemporary art in Indonesia and the Netherlands allow for the links between the two countries? And how do we actually perceive Indonesian art? The book is being published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the Central Museum in Utrecht. The book takes three cross-sections through fine art in the Dutch East Indies/Indonesia: the colonial period around 1900, decolonisation and independence around 1950, and the current, post-colonial period around 2000. Only by taking a detailed look at these three pivotal moments can a clear picture be obtained of the turbulent development of art in Indonesia.

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Based upon a major exhibition of Indonesian art and artists held at the Central Museum in Utrecht, Beyond the Dutch is superbly illustrated and documents the major history of 20th Century Indonesian art... It is a seminal work of outstanding scholarship, making it a core addition to any personal, professional, or academic World Art History reference collection in general, and 20th Century Indonesian Art History reading list in particular.

"""Based upon a major exhibition of Indonesian art and artists held at the Central Museum in Utrecht, ""Beyond the Dutch"" is superbly illustrated and documents the major history of 20th Century Indonesian art... It is a seminal work of outstanding scholarship, making it a core addition to any personal, professional, or academic World Art History reference collection in general, and 20th Century Indonesian Art History reading list in particular."""

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