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Book Description 
This beautiful book contains a photographic record of the work of Walter Spies, a German artist, and Beryl de Zoete, a British writer and dance critic, co-authors of the classic Dance and Drama in Bali (1938). These photographs, many previously unpublished, are chosen from the Horniman Museum Library collection to vividly evoke rural life in Bali, with its dance-drama traditions, and challenge the more lurid aspects of Bali's image in the 1930s.

Walter Spies, the German artist who lived on the island in the inter-war years, challenged the more lurid aspects of Bali's image, and together with British writer and dance critic Beryl de Zoete helped to transform Bali's image in the eyes of the West. In this book, the authors present many hitherto unpublished photographs (now in the Horniman Museum Library) dealing with rural life in Bali, the dance-drama traditions of the island, as well as a series showing Spies and de Zoete conducting research in Bali. 

Table of Contents  
Acknowledgements 
Pt. I. Walter Spies and Beryl de Zoete in Bali 
1. Introduction 
2. Bali: The Living Museum 
3. Walter's Balinese Idyll 
4. Bloomsbury, Bali, and Beryl 
5. Bali Photographed 
6. Walter's Visual Alchemy 

Pt. II. The Bali of Walter Spies and Beryl de Zoete 
The Balinese Landscape 
The People of Bali 
Religion and Ritual 
Dance and Drama in Bali 

Bibliography 
Index