Bright flowers : textiles and ceramics of Central Asia / Christina Sumner and Guy Petherbridge.
Material type: TextPublisher: Haymarket, NSW, Australia : Powerhouse Pub. in association with Lund Humphries, Hampshire, U.K., 2004Description: 159 pages : colour illustrations, colour map ; 29 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 085331912X
- 9780853319122
- 745.50958 22
- NK9275.A1 S86 2004
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 745.50958 SUM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A267690B |
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Powerhouse Museum, Sept. 2004-Feb. 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (page 153) and index.
Introduction / Christina Sumner -- Flowers of the hearth : textiles / Christina Sumner -- Bukhara embroidery of the 1800s / Koryogdi Jurayevich Jumaev -- Textile illustrations -- Flowers of the kiln : ceramics / Guy Petherbridge -- The Uzbek Kulol / Akbar Rakhimov and Alisher Rakhimov -- Ceramic illustrations.
"Bright Flowers reveals, in many cases for the first time in published form, some of the spectacular and colourful embroidered textiles and glazed ceramics of Central Asia. It provides a fascinating insight into the material culture and peoples of an area which is becoming increasingly well-known to outsiders."--BOOK JACKET.
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