Elly Kent

Dr Elly Kent is a researcher, writer, translator, artist, educator and intercultural professional who works in academia and the arts in Indonesia and Australia. Her research focuses on the art of Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, and she is a lecturer in Indonesian studies at UNSW Canberra.

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Living Art »

Indonesian Artists Engage Politics, Society and History

Publication date: November 2022
Living Art: Indonesian Artists Engage Politics, Society and History is inspired by the conviction of so many of Indonesia’s Independence-era artists that there is continuing interaction between art and everyday life. In the 1970s, Sanento Yuliman, Indonesia’s foremost art historian of the late twentieth century, further developed that concept, stating: ‘New Indonesian Art cannot wholly be understood without locating it in the context of the larger framework of Indonesian…