Wayang Kulit
ワヤン・クリ（影絵芝居） / traditional–present / Style / Southeast Asian Performing Arts
Java's shadow theater of pierced leather puppets against lamp and screen — perfecting a formal language of contour, silhouette and the stylized profile.
Pierced leather puppets / Stylized profiles / Shadow and light source / All-night performances
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- The dalang's craft / adaptations of the Mahabharata / shadow play as animation's prehistory