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  • 1001 REMARKABLE OBJECTS

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    1001 REMARKABLE OBJECTS A celebration of the scale, breadth and relevance of the decorative arts and design collections held by Powerhouse Museum, ...

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  • ABCDCS: David Collins Studio

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     "When I look around my houses in New York or London I am struck by what an influence he has had on me. He has left his souvenirs everywhere. His t...

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  • A Complete Examination of Middlesex

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    “What I’m searching for when I walk the street are people I can engage with: somebody whose face, and particularly eyes, scream a story.”– Bruce Gi...

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  • A Designed Life: Contemporary American Textiles Wallpapers and Containers and Packaging 1951-54

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    Published to accompany an eponymous exhibition organized by UMBC's Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, A Designed Life: Contemporary America...

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  • After Taste: Expanded Practice in Interior Design

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    AfterTaste: Expanded Practices in Interior Design is an edited volume comprising texts, interviews and portfolios that collectively document new th...

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  • An Uncertain Grace

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    By the author of Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age "Salgado shows us that concealed within the pain of living and the tragedy of dying ...

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  • Art

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    **Shortlisted, ALS Gold Medal 2023** ART is the second collaborative poetry work from Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella. It is a formidab...

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  • Angela Valamanesh About Being Here

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    Angela Valamanesh is one of Australia's most intriguing ceramic artists. Her art is aesthetically minimal and cunningly simple, allowing us to inte...

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  • Art Cities of the Future 21st-Century Avant-Gardes

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    Today the art world is more of a world in every sense, with a larger population, a wider territory and a greater number of nationalities. Its preva...

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  • Australian Jewellery: 19th and Early 20th Century

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    This book documents the styles and fashions from European settlement through the colonial era and goldrush periods and provides detailed informatio...

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  • Australia Modern

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    Architecture, Landscape & Design 1925-1975   From the Sydney Opera House and the National Gallery of Victoria to sought-after homes across the ...

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  • Carsten Höller: Experience

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    Carsten Höller has created a world that is equal parts laboratory and fun house. He explores important themes such as architecture, childhood, love...

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  • Ceramics An Atlas of Forms

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    What can we learn about the Roman empire from an amphora made in 200 BC? How can a simple, unadorned cup made in 1945 tell us so much about history...

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  • Clay: Contemporary Ceramic Artisans

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    Captures the feel of the ceramicist’s studio with new appreciation for the beautiful, functional, and accessible works being produced by a new gene...

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  • Designer's Dictionary of Colour

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    The Designer's Dictionary of Colour provides an in-depth look at 30 colours key to art and graphic design. Organized by spectrum, in colour-by-colo...

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  • Design lives here

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    Penny Craswell is a Sydney-based editor, writer and curator who specialises in design, craft, architecture and interiors. She is the former Edito...

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  • Eucalyptusdom

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    Eucalyptusdom reckons with Australia’s cultural history and ever-changing relationship with the gum tree. This publication expands upon a body of r...

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  • Evidence: Brook Andrew

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    ‘Evidence brings to light objects that tell the story of resistance, social change, and the struggle for rights and liberties. Some of the objects ...

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  • Fashion Together Conversations with Fashions Most Influential Collaborators

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    Today's fashion designers and stylists are no longer faceless credited names, but rather public personas who often attain celebrity status. Unique ...

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  • First Knowledges Box Set

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    What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years?The First Knowledges series offers an introduction to Indigenous knowledg...

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  • First Knowledges Design: Building on Country

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    The First Knowledges series offers an introduction to Indigenous knowledges in vital areas and their application to the present day and the future....

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  • Furnitecture: Furniture That Transforms Space

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    A compact sourcebook of ideas for innovative furnishing, interior environments and small-scale architectural interventions.As the definition of 'de...

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  • galang 01

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    PowerThe galang collective convenes regularly to discuss the role of museums and other cultural institutions in the past and present colonisation o...

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    The galang collective convenes regularly to discuss the role of museums and other cultural institutions in the past and present colonisation of Fir...

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