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Jewellery in the Age of Modernism 1918–

1940

To Cath, Tim and Ollie

Material Culture of Art and Design

is devoted to scholarship that brings art

history into dialogue with interdisciplinary material culture studies. The material

components of an object – its medium and physicality – are key to understanding

its cultural significance. Material culture has stretched the boundaries of art

history and emphasized new points of contact with other disciplines, including

anthropology, archaeology, consumer and mass culture studies, the literary

movement called ‘Thing Theory’ and materialist philosophy. Material Culture

of Art and Design seeks to publish studies that explore the relationship between

art and material culture in all of its complexity. The series is a venue for scholars

to explore specific object histories (or object biographies, as the term has

developed), studies of medium and the procedures for making works of art, and

investigations of art’s relationship to the broader material world that comprises

society. It seeks to be the premiere venue for publishing scholarship about works

of art as exemplifications of material culture.

The series encompasses material culture in its broadest dimensions, including

the decorative arts (furniture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles), everyday objects of

all kinds (toys, machines, musical instruments), and studies of the familiar high

arts of painting and sculpture. The series welcomes proposals for monographs,

thematic studies and edited collections.

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