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The Nanyang artists’ 1952 Bali trip is the stuff of road movies – 1,000 unseen photos reveal why
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Writer Gretchen Liu draws on unseen photographs by her father-in-law, pioneer artist Liu Kang, to reconstruct the events of the seminal 1952 Bali trip in her new book, Bali 1952: Through The Lens Of Liu Kang.
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SINGAPORE – On June 25, 1952, a 41-year-old Liu Kang was perched on a rented jukung in the Bali Strait – his face the colour of salted vegetables – feeling as if the canoe would at any time fly off the choppy open waters.
He had already spent 17 days in Java and was emotional at the sight of his final destination: Bali.
