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Arts: Visual Arts and Artists: Indonesia
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Introduction

The role of women in the visual arts in Indonesia has often been obscured by masculine discourses of colonization, nationalism, development, and religion—in particular, but not exclusively, Islam. Nonetheless, women have historically been the primary producers of visual art forms, both religious and se…

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Elly Kent, “Arts: Visual Arts and Artists: Indonesia”, in: Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, General Editor Suad Joseph. Consulted online on 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1872-5309_ewic_COM_002173>
First published online: 2019



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