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Material Culture: Aspects of Contemporary Australian Craft and Design
Material Culture Aspects of Contemporary Australian Craft and Design Author:Robert Bell Material Culture offers an excellent overview of the range and quality of contemporary Australian craft and design. Focusing on recent works in ceramics, glass, textiles, furniture, jewelry, and metal, it illustrates, through themes of structure, narrative, and transformation, the ways that some of Australia?s most highly regarded object designe... more »rs and craft practitioners are expressing and giving meaning to our material culture. The book challenges perceptions about the nature of objects and their place in the Australian cultural landscape. Australia has benefited from the diversity of its practitioners and their broad range of backgrounds, many being immigrants to Australia from around the world.« less