Semarang Batik as an Artistic Representation of Coastal and Egalitarian Communities

Keywords

art expression, representation, batik, egalitarian, culture

Abstract

Batik is one of Semarang citizens art that has unique things. That unique thing comes from the locality as the source of the idea that expressed to its embodiment. This assessment is focused on the question, how the coastal locality representation to Semarang’s batik expression as the characteristic embodiment. This assessment is to find some descriptions that clearly related to the description of the representation of society and culture to Semarang’s batik. This research is to find the proof that Semarang’s batik represents the type of urban society, coastal/ egalitarian; and the type of pop culture, eclectic / acculturative.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Syakir Syakir
PY  - 2019/05
DA  - 2019/05
TI  - Semarang Batik as an Artistic Representation of Coastal and Egalitarian Communities
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Arts and Culture (ICONARC 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 207
EP  - 210
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125911198
ID  - Syakir2019/05
ER  -