Contemporary Socialist Realism Within Indonesian Local Toss up Cards in the 1940s–1950s Era
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210602.026How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Toss up cards, Socialist Realism, Contemporary Art
- Abstract
Local animated toss up cards were favorite animated cards during 1930s-2000s in Indonesia. Shadow puppet characters had inspired the production of these cards during 1940s and 1950s, specifically toss up cards featuring Petroek-Gareng characters acting as Dutch who embodied culture and custom of the Netherlands. At present, these local animated toss up cards have become rare and developed into collectibles. This study employed qualitative method by interpreting the characters visualized as colonizers (the bourgeois). The researcher analyzed the data from sources and documentation of toss up cards sourced from a number of books on the local animated toss up cards by Ibnu ‘BENU’ Wibi Winarko. This research aimed to review the local animated toss up cards from 1940s to 1950s as a form of contemporary artwork based on Danto’s theory by viewing contemporary artwork in the following perspectives: (1) arts as the drive for transformation, (2) arts as the tool to understand culture, and (3) arts as carrying meaning in the social realism concept and revealing the reasons behind visualization of shadow puppet characters of Petroek-Gareng as Dutch with the other shadow puppet characters acting as natives to represent the issues arising at the time in the toss up cards.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Diesta Noor Shinta AU - Trie Hartiti Retnowati AU - Hadjar Pamadhi PY - 2021 DA - 2021/06/04 TI - Contemporary Socialist Realism Within Indonesian Local Toss up Cards in the 1940s–1950s Era BT - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Arts and Arts Education (ICAAE 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 136 EP - 140 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210602.026 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210602.026 ID - Shinta2021 ER -