Jah-het Of Malaysia Art And Culture (Soft Cover)

Jah-het Of Malaysia Art And Culture (Soft Cover)

Author/Editor: Roland Werner

Publisher: UM Press

ISBN: 9789831000072

Weight: 500g

Pages: 637

Year: 1997

Price: RM65

The appearance of the JAH-HET woodcarvings on the Malaysia art scene in the early 1960s has not only created excitement, surprise and recognition of this outstanding artistic expression of aborigines, but also doubts and criticism about such "art". Because Jah-Het trade-carvings do not serve any purpose and play no part in their traditional life, they have even been described by some critics (who did not seem to have enough background information) as "copies from other cultures."