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Bright flowers : textiles and ceramics of Central Asia / Christina Sumner and Guy Petherbridge.

By:

Sumner, Christina [author.]

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

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

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

085331912X
9780853319122

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

745.50958 22

LOC classification:

NK9275.A1 S86 2004

Contents:

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.

Review: "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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Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Powerhouse Museum, Sept. 2004-Feb. 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (page 153) and index.

"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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