Modern Malaysian Art Manifestation of Malay Form and Content

• Main Author: Mohamed Ali Abdul Rahman (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Shah Alam Pusat Penerbitan Universiti (UPENA), Universiti Teknologi MARA 2000
• Subjects: Painting, Malaysian; Painting > Malaysia
• Online Access: Click Here to View Status and Holdings.
• Physical Description: xi, 67 pages some colour illustrations 21 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references : pages [65]-67
• ISBN: 9789679581256

This book is a testimony to the commitment of modern Malaysian artists to incorporate important local themes and their cultural heritage into the mainstream of the contemporary art movement. The effort of the author to highlight Malay form and content in modern Malaysia painting is timely. The objective of art is not to change history, but to produce a thing of value. In order to achieve this goal someone must take the effort to record works of excellence ad classify them in terms of style. The author has succeeded to arrange those works of art in such a way to render them more meaningful and aesthetically understood.